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Can anyone set up an apk or bring up how to derive the uncap data throttle on the nexus S? that would be so great.
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Can anyone set up an apk or bring up how to derive the uncap data throttle on the nexus S? that would be so great.
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ill try to figure it out when i get throttled this month, its pretty easy on the nexus one.
At what usage limit does T-Mobile starts to throttle? And do they so it on the unlimited plans ?
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clubtech said:
At what usage limit does T-Mobile starts to throttle? And do they so it on the unlimited plans ?
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5gb per month, and yes on "unlimited" plans. Other phone providers(such as AT&T and Verizon) will charge you an overage rate, even on "unlimited" plans. T-Mobile, thankfully, just throttles.
There was a way to completely defeat the throttle on the T-Mobile G2 forums, but it required root and modifying some system files(as well as having drawbacks of it's own) which I'm not sure it would work on the Nexus S.
I did this on my phone, it requires modifying the services.jar. I can post the modified one for you guys if you'd like.
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Yes thanks
I've only been throttled once, and it wasn't until I was at like 6 gigs plus. The throttling wasn't very severe either...I went from 4Mbs avg speed to ~3Mbs. No big deal for me, even while tethered.
Maybe I was just lucky.
Funny thing is that my NS has NEVER reached the speeds I can get with my Nexus One. NS seems to cap out at around 3Mbs, the NS I got as high as 4.3Mbs one day of testing. I'm going to test with the N1 again today at my office and see if the N1 is actually pulling data faster. There's no way I'm throttled this month...most of my data has been on wifi, and I haven't received the dreaded SMS telling me I'm a data hog.
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I've only been throttled once, and it wasn't until I was at like 6 gigs plus. The throttling wasn't very severe either...I went from 4Mbs avg speed to ~3Mbs. No big deal for me, even while tethered.
Maybe I was just lucky.
Funny thing is that my NS has NEVER reached the speeds I can get with my Nexus One. NS seems to cap out at around 3Mbs, the NS I got as high as 4.3Mbs one day of testing. I'm going to test with the N1 again today at my office and see if the N1 is actually pulling data faster. There's no way I'm throttled this month...most of my data has been on wifi, and I haven't received the dreaded SMS telling me I'm a data hog.
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My experience has actually been the opposite of yours. As I've noted in other threads where Nexus vs Nexus has come up, my Nexus One had an exceptionally weak 3G signal. We're talking >1mb on a good day, if I even left the 3G on. If it was an important business day, I often knocked it down to EDGE just so I could reliably receive/send phone calls/texts.
My Nexus S usually pulls down between 3.2-3.8mbs, which is interestingly enough about the same as I was getting on my briefly owned MT4G(though the G2's speed was double them).
very strange man, my nexus one is slow compared to my nexus s. i NEED to send you all snap shots, im such a noob. i have 5.5-5.9mb on my nexus s. never have acheived that on my nexus one, or at least so consistently.
BEST PART
tethered my phone to my pc, downloading movies/music while having my ipade play net flix. not saying my nexus one couldnt do that, i just never did. and it was freaken awesome. went on speednet at shows 4.5-4.8mb on it. incredible hotspot/tethering.
i just really need this uncapp for tmobile to happen. i fear it will be an issue as when the throttling occurs it goes SLOWER THAN 2G.
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My experience has actually been the opposite of yours. As I've noted in other threads where Nexus vs Nexus has come up, my Nexus One had an exceptionally weak 3G signal. We're talking >1mb on a good day, if I even left the 3G on. If it was an important business day, I often knocked it down to EDGE just so I could reliably receive/send phone calls/texts.
My Nexus S usually pulls down between 3.2-3.8mbs, which is interestingly enough about the same as I was getting on my briefly owned MT4G(though the G2's speed was double them).
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very strange man, my nexus one is slow compared to my nexus s. i NEED to send you all snap shots, im such a noob. i have 5.5-5.9mb on my nexus s. never have acheived that on my nexus one, or at least so consistently..
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Our varying experiences prove what I've always said about cellular service, it's just like real estate, the only thing that matters is location, location, location. The browser I am on right now doesn't show me your locations, but I'm assuming we're not all in the suburbs of Los Angeles, so it's just a matter of what the infrastructure for T-Mo is in our particular areas.
One of the initial disappointments I had for the Nexus S when first announced was that it wasn't a "4G" (okay HSPA+ device), but when I thought about it more, I realized that even though T-Mo says I am in an HSPA+ area now, that I'm not even getting the full regular HSPA potential from any of my phones, so no point in worrying about HSPA+ until the service actually delivers HSPA+ speeds in my area. My "friend" in Newport Beach (Orange County) is only getting about 5Mbs on his MT4G as well.
More on topic, I wonder if the throttling is impacted at all by your usage patterns, and if the throttling becomes more severe the more times they throttle you. I always thought of myself as a heavy data user by watching a lot of youtube videos, some netflix, streaming Sirius radio stations, tons of web browsing, but have only gone over the 5gb monthly once. Maybe that's the reason they weren't so harsh(?).
Does anybody have a modified services.jar they could share with me? My home internet is down due to the giant blizzard and I've hit the "cap."
I've tried modifying it myself but I can't get classes.dex out of services.jar. All I have when I unpack it is MANIFEST.MF.
i have never really considered myself a heavy data user until i cut off my internet and exclusively used tethering. i got a txt from tmobile the minute i hit 5 gig. and after that my internet on the phone was so slow my browser would time on on requests. So now i mostly use my neighbors non passworded wifi
schizopunk said:
I did this on my phone, it requires modifying the services.jar. I can post the modified one for you guys if you'd like.
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:O Did you jump ship on the Epic Schizo? Glad to have you here, Epic Experience was a great rom
On topic: Are there any negative side-effects of modifying this file? And would there be issues depending on which rom we're using?
just a heads up...
According to T-mobile I hit or went over the 5GB throttle cap last week. My speeds have been down to 50 kb/s the past 7 days.
The crappy part is that I'm actually UNDER the 5GB cap. T-mobiles website reports I'm around 3GB TOTAL yet they can't seem to fix out why I'm being capped (or they aren't telling me).
My billing cycle will reset tomorrow, but I'm not counting on this resetting and I bet this happens again.
50 kb/s sucks because most apps are not even tested for speeds probably under 56k...so I notice more time outs and FC on some apps now.
At least it would be ok if it was edge speeds, but it is below that.
mortzz said:
Does anybody have a modified services.jar they could share with me? My home internet is down due to the giant blizzard and I've hit the "cap."
I've tried modifying it myself but I can't get classes.dex out of services.jar. All I have when I unpack it is MANIFEST.MF.
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I edited mine, been getting up there in the GB'z... taken from nightly 28, edited the services.jar but there's no 'one fits all' so I advise you take your services.jar from the ROM your running and edit the classes.dex -->Baksmali/Smali<-- and push it back into your phone after editing.
I kept the 7 throttleservices smaili's in the classes.dex as placeholders rather than deleting them, I just kept the headers and deleted the rest... seems to be working good, had a couple weird issues.
Keep in mind your mobile networks settings will become unusable (force close) but then again who uses those settings after they are set anyway? So make sure your roaming and apn and everything is all set before pushing the services.jar back in. So if u like to go into the settings and switch to 2G you'll have to go the *#*#4636#*#* route, or maybe a widget will do?
Anyhow, I guess you can always just push back your original services.jar....
Good write up here: http://www.greatereader.org/?p=5397
PM me if u need some help
so!
got the samsung galaxy 4g the day it came out. i had actually gotten the g2 originally, and 13 days later, this phone came out and after holding it in my hands i had to have it. it was just... sexy.
so the day i got it i was so happy. i ended up paying nothing for it through a weird fluke situation on tmobiles part, which made it even better.
then the troubles started.
in getting the new phone i knew that although this phone boasts the speeds that it does there was no way i was going to get those speeds. i do a speed test. at the tmobile store (1/4 a mile away from a tower on a tuesday afternoon around 2 pm) i get ..... 0.03 down and 0 up.
....k.
so i give it some time to get used to my sim card and my usage. that's when i notice the battery. i had to charge my phone two times a day on light usage. i turn off all synching, including my google calendar and contacts to see if that helps the battery. meh, a little. but i'm still charging it at least halfway through the day, and i am not able to use my phone at work. that means from the time i unplug it ten minutes before i leave for work until 6 pm (11 hours later) my battery is at roughly 20% ... and i've done nothing on the phone whatsoever. i'm super sad about the battery life and still getting sad speed tests on my "4g".
then about a week after purchase more problems kick in.
pretty soon my picture messages aren't coming through. it's giving me messages i'm used to seeing on my iphone, something about the message size being too big to download (sorry, the wording has left my mind now that i am trying to document it all for you guys).
then i start getting no texts. and sending them is a joke. if i have less than three bars (i usually have two at home and my work building) i am not able to send. it will try and give me a failed message. pulling out the battery will usually fix it, but after a couple of weeks of that it gets used to that fix and doesn't work at all.
i go into the tmobile store.
they switch out my sim (which we had done once before) and at this point my phone doesn't recognize the new sim. the rep tells me i broke my phone (even though my phone at least recognized the previous sim) and tells me that i'll need a new phone, offering to sell me one for cheap. i leave, pretty irritated at the dude.
i go to work, call 611, they tell me my IMEI has never been active on my account. we activate it and lo and behold, my phone recognizes the sim (mmhmm). but still sending messages is still a joke. out of 10 messages i can usually get one to send. it's a sad ratio of sent to failed.
in addition, i am still charging my battery at least once to twice a day with hardly any usage whatsoever (what good is using a phone that never has service anyway?). i've turned off wifi at all times, 4g is off, everything synching is off. i'll take out the sim and put it in my iphone so that it's not constantly searching for service (which texting worked just fine on my iphone) and it STILL dies by the end of my work day - i am lucky if i get 12 hours of standby before having to charge it. i condition my battery with no luck.. it still sucks. i root it and set SetCPU to underclock down to 200mhz when idle just to see if that will help the battery. i get about 14 hours of standby on that.
so, after all of this and about two months later, i finally got a replacement phone today. after looking at the back of the new phone and the old one i discover something interesting...
my sim contacts have been broken this whole time! sad!
( i was going to link to the pic but can't since i'm a new user. )
now, has this new phone fixed my issue? well, for one i'm getting 4g speeds at my place (i live in downtown SLC, i should be getting them here!) for the first time ever and have yet to come across a "failed" message when sending texts. only time will tell but mostly i want to post this to let you know.. if you are having this issue this is NOT normal. talk to tmobile. troubleshoot what you need to and get that mother replaced!
(i'll report back on battery life tomorrow.)
Consider yourself lucky. I live in Murray, phone says 4G but my Vibrant pulls faster speeds on 3g. Lol
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Honestly man I was in SLC a couple weeks ago with my 4g and the speed sucked compaired to here in Reno... I get 7mb up and 1.8 up avg with much higher peaks in Reno. Even at the gateway downtown SLC the 4g sucked at about 3mb upload and 750k up.
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i need a new city
Vegas here. Even though they say we are one of the new turned up cities I'm still only getting 7mb down and 1.5 up on a typical day.
Here's something interesting though, when I upgraded from my G1 to my SGS4G they were supposed to update my data plan.
Logged into my TMO account and it still shows the G1 Unlimited data. Paying $25 instead of the $30.
My wife has a MT4G and her account did get upgraded to the 4G Unlimited data plan for $30 a month.
Possible my phone isn't going to get higher speeds based on the data plan still in my account? I'm doubting it, but I guess it's possible.
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Vegas here. Even though they say we are one of the new turned up cities I'm still only getting 7mb down and 1.5 up on a typical day.
Here's something interesting though, when I upgraded from my G1 to my SGS4G they were supposed to update my data plan.
Logged into my TMO account and it still shows the G1 Unlimited data. Paying $25 instead of the $30.
My wife has a MT4G and her account did get upgraded to the 4G Unlimited data plan for $30 a month.
Possible my phone isn't going to get higher speeds based on the data plan still in my account? I'm doubting it, but I guess it's possible.
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i still have the g1 data plan as well, i wonder if that does have anything to do with it. i kinda don't want to ask though, the 5 bucks a month is small but nice to not pay
p.s. for all interested, my battery is at 48% with pretty consistent usage and synching on all day. schweet!
I would have callers t mobile right away and gotten a new phone overnight. I am not too trusting of in store employees. Most don't know how to troubleshoot a phone.
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i need a new city
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You can have my city.... except I don't have a city.... it's just a trailer park in the middle of nowhere. But then I get better speed here than I can in the nearest two cities, a ripping 16KB/SEC on a good day, on "AMERICAS LARGEST 4G NETWORK" I spend almost as much time downloading as I do talking to tech support. Then that's another story.
Your data plan will not affect your data speeds in any way.
As for the phone showing 4G and having another 3G device pulling better speeds. The cause is that you are not in a true 4G area. The GS4G does not have an icon for 3G, even if it did, the phone cannot distinguish between 3G or 4G due to the fact that HSPA+ is still 3G hardware on the tower, but provides 4G speeds via software in the base station and the backhaul of the network.
I don't see how you are getting such bad speeds. I live in Kaysville, only 20 minutes from SLC and my average DL speed is usually around 5.0mb/s. The fastest I have gotten over 4g so far is 8.8mb/s.
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I don't see how you are getting such bad speeds. I live in Kaysville, only 20 minutes from SLC and my average DL speed is usually around 5.0mb/s. The fastest I have gotten over 4g so far is 8.8mb/s.
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If you are lucky enough to have a 3 or 4G tower in your area you will likely have good download speed. My download speed sucks. TMO's network is full of holes.... DEAD zones. Even in large areas like Los Angeles, CA. They have a long way to go before their network will catch up with the others.
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Your data plan will not affect your data speeds in any way.
As for the phone showing 4G and having another 3G device pulling better speeds. The cause is that you are not in a true 4G area. The GS4G does not have an icon for 3G, even if it did, the phone cannot distinguish between 3G or 4G due to the fact that HSPA+ is still 3G hardware on the tower, but provides 4G speeds via software in the base station and the backhaul of the network.
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I'm confused by this due to my dell streak 7 actually showing 3g and 4g at different times.
DelinQuentisDQ said:
Your data plan will not affect your data speeds in any way.
As for the phone showing 4G and having another 3G device pulling better speeds. The cause is that you are not in a true 4G area. The GS4G does not have an icon for 3G, even if it did, the phone cannot distinguish between 3G or 4G due to the fact that HSPA+ is still 3G hardware on the tower, but provides 4G speeds via software in the base station and the backhaul of the network.
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I actually get 3g , 4g, edge, and g.
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I actually get 3g , 4g, edge, and g.
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The GS4G does not even have an icon to represent 3G.
Please, if you can, provide a screenshot.
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The GS4G does not even have an icon to represent 3G.
Please, if you can, provide a screenshot.
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I will have to do it Monday, cause it only happens when I leave my office building. When I am in my office building I will often go into data roaming through at&t. This may have something to do with why it shows up. But it is there.
If you truly doubt it. Go to the market and download ninja morph. Then use it to make a copy of your framework-res.APK. From there open the COPY that you made. Look in framework-res.apk\res\drawable-hdpi-v4
Do not try and look in the actual phones framework-res.apk. Because it will break a couple things and you will have to re-flash. But if you make the copy it will automatically extract the apk and you can view the files with your computer.
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The GS4G does not even have an icon to represent 3G.
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that my friend, you are wrong on.
I get the 3G icon on my elevator everyday before and after work.
4g
I always get 4g in the missouri area and I get 13mbps
And now each month on Verizon im going over 10gb with the Thunderbolt. Im really not doing anything different either. I have the same apps as the captivate, generally use it the same amount.
Anyone finding the same with their TBolt?
10 GB? Bull ****! doesnt seem possible
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10 GB? Bull ****! doesnt seem possible
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10GB/mo is very easy to achieve.
The only time I use alot of data is when I tether, even the occasional Pandora/Youtube/streaming doesn't use that to much.Plus, are in 4G or 3G area?
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And now each month on Verizon im going over 10gb with the Thunderbolt. Im really not doing anything different either. I have the same apps as the captivate, generally use it the same amount.
Anyone finding the same with their TBolt?
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Would be nice to have a list of the apps u use so we can help u
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I have noticed, and have seen other threads about it, that I am using a lot more data on my TB then I ever did with my OG Droid. Like others say I haven't really changed my usage or apps really. At least not a lot that I should be seeing the jump in data that I have gotten.
It makes me think that there is something with the way LTE is working that is making the phone pull data more then it should.
used 9 gig so far and I only have 8 days left I think. The reason why I use so much because I use the mobile hotspot app to watch netflix
The iPhone and captivated are 3g phones, if you are using 4g I would expect it to be significantly more
I tether with my Eris and only use 3gb, I'm at 8 right now with 1 week Tobago. I think I'm forgetting that I'm not on my home WiFi and use my stuff unconservatively.
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Not surprised.
I used about 2-3gigs on my nexus one t-mobile, and on my t-bolt, my last bill cycle was about 10.5 gigs, no change in how i used it.
I wouldn't be surprised. I have heard stories of 40 or 80 gigs of use, and some claim no tethering either. Maybe on ur next cycle you can force it to 3g only and see how much you use then. Atleast we got unlimited data.
Also > http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1071253
I used 2.8GB and that is mostly streaming pandora for 8 hours every day. I use WiFi at home. In the past though, I hit 10-15GB/month when I didn't have a home network connection (tethered to 2 laptops and a desktop though).
I think by saying "not using it any differently" we are forgetting that it is faster. In other words, I may still only spend a half hour on YouTube and a couple hours worth of web as before, but in that same space of time I have done so much more...
for instance YouTube and Pandora in high quality mode, downloading. roms over 4G instead of wifi, etc...
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instead of waiting for things to load on 3g and then saying "eff it i need to go" and put it back in your pocket. 4g is so fast that things loads when you need it to...
only explanation i can think of =P
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As Newt would say, "mostly". At some point Verizon will start throttling your data but I admit that I don't know what that point is.
Throttle the top 5%. 10 gigs is no where near the top 5%. And just because its a 4G connection does not automatically mean more data usage. 1 GB of data is 1 GB of data whether on 4G or 3G. What does change is the amount of data you can use in the same hour long lunch break for instance. You can do things so much faster you don't realize how much you actually use.
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I'm at the end of my billing cycle and am just over 10 GB so far.
I listen to different streaming radios for about 8 hours of the day, at high quality, using Pandora, Slacker and Winamp's Shoutcast. When I'm at home, my phone is on WiFi.
My wife and I have been house hunting and I use Google Navigation to drive to these houses which pulls down a lot of images.
There may be some times that I pull up a video here and there, but not very often. I have tethered a couple times, but nothing significant.
I originally had AT&T before they got rid of unlimited, then switched to Sprint to get the EVO and now on Verizon because of their ridiculously fast LTE network. If Verizon had data caps like AT&T, or throttled like T-Mobile, I wouldn't have switched.
That's how I typically use my phone and easily use many GBs of data... which gets me thinking... how the heck did we survive on dial-up back in the day? How things have changed.
The simple reason you never went over 1gb/month with those phones is because it would take more than a month to transfer that much data on at&t's ****ty network
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I did 2.9GB last month and that was without tethering. Most of it was probably from using dropbox to download apps, kernels and ROMs that I wanted to test and play with, besides using Pandora almost daily. I'm sure I could hit 10GB without a problem if I tethered.
I have used 8+ Gigs in a month, no tethering.. and that was with my Droid X, so once I get 4G, I'm sure it'll be easy to get 10+.
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I recently flashed Firefly3 which enables HSDPA. Does hsdpa use up more data than the traditional 3g. I know they're the "same", but I only have a 200mb plan with att and I've already used about a 100mb in the first week of my billing cycle. I've had this phone for about 6 months and the most data I've ever used to this point is about 60mb for the entire month. I'm almost always on wifi. Does flashing rom use data? Is there a way to find what is using my data? wifi never sleeps, just trying to figure out what is doing this. Is it the ROM?
Flashing a rom won't use data. Apps running like email could be using data. What kinds of apps are you using everyday? I believe the 3g and h only differ in how fast data travels and does not effect how much data is used.
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Forgot to mention you can see what programs are running under apps from your home screen. I believe there are apps that will tell you what is using data.
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Almost all the apps I use are the same I've been using for awhile. Like i said i'm on wifi about 95% of the time. Something is chompin away at my data, just not sure what is. Does att have the ability to tell me what is doing this. For all I know it could be just one app.
3G watchdog might help you, it's on the market.
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Guess I'll try watchdog. thanks. glad it's not the rom, cuz i'm really liking this one so far.
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I recently flashed Firefly3 which enables HSDPA. Does hsdpa use up more data than the traditional 3g. I know they're the "same", but I only have a 200mb plan with att and I've already used about a 100mb in the first week of my billing cycle. I've had this phone for about 6 months and the most data I've ever used to this point is about 60mb for the entire month. I'm almost always on wifi. Does flashing rom use data? Is there a way to find what is using my data? wifi never sleeps, just trying to figure out what is doing this. Is it the ROM?
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Do you use speed test alot? It eats up slot of data every time you use it (about 6mb every time, if I remember correctly). Did you leave background on, our auto sync? They all take up data.
funny you mention it cuz i just thought about speedtest, i ran it about 4-5 times this weekend. prob the culprit. already uninstalled. didnt like the results anyway. they were making me feel inferior. thanks for the help both of u. much appreciated
Don't worry about using that stuff anyway, just numbers. What actually matters is how long web pages take to load and apps take to start, etc. Real life tests!
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HSDAP is enabled already in stock ROM. It is HSUPA that requires custom ROM (and most importantly non-AT&T modem).
Simply display a H icon (as a lot of custom ROM choose to) instead of 3G icon (as AT&T mandates all its phones to) doesn't mean you're downloading any faster.
The speed has little to do with how much data you will use per month. Of course, faster pipe will let you consume data faster but ultimately it is what you do determines how much data you use. a 1kB emails will only uses up 1KB of data regardless you're downloading it at 100kbps or 1mbps.
Emails and moderate web usage should leave you plenty of legroom on 200MB plan. Just don't do any kind of video or audio streaming or speed test (which they download and upload a large chunk of data to measure your speed).
dont use speed test the servers get busy and i think the carriers may be restricting some bandwith to them because it is used soo much. use the browser to go on speakeasy.com i get way faster connections to that.
to answer the original question, the captivate has hsdpa by default. any modem for a i9000 i9010 i9088 t959 or basically anything that is not a i897 or i896 will enable hsupa and hsdpa also known as hspa.
the difference being that rogers and att restrict the upload bandwidth except for the iphone by disabling hsupa on the phone. this is probably because they are afraid the since android is so flexible and hard to regulate that people will use there phones to do things that use huge amounts of data. if you limit the upload it makes things like video chatting jittery and it makes hosting multiple devices slow but most important it makes hosting anything basically useless while only having a small effect on browsing. hsupa shouldn't increase usage but it does increase speed.
turn off network based location, reject googles collecting annonomous location data when you flash a new rom and turn off any sync option that doesnt need to be on. you will also notice good battery life. then you might also want to find a rom with good add blocking. with all that you should see good battery life and less data useage.
I've been seeing this becoming more n more popular . People dropping their carrier and just using there WiFi to connect there phone for INTERNET n such .Was just wondering if anyone here does this already and or has any good apps ideas or tips for doing this .
Thanx oh not that it matters much but i have a Motorola Droid 2 for this.
No reason it wouldn't work. I have a G1 iPhone and it still plays Pandora OK and Internet's etc.
Just took the old ATT sim out and tossed it.
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Cool ya I didn't think there'd be any probs to do it. I talked to my cuz n he only uses his phone when he's on wifi has a number for texting n everything. Also thru the same app he does this with if you try there adds or something he can rack up minutes to call people? Anyone hear of this at all. All I'd be worried bout is the internet and to still play the games
I used my Sprint HTC Touch Pro II for about a year on wifi only,before I got it ported to Boost.
No difference beteeen the two that I could tell.
Matt
It really depends on where you live and why you have a phone.
I considered this when leaving my Sprint contract but decided not to for what I think is a very important reason. Emergencies. What if something happens and I need to make a call and I'm not near WIFI ? What if I'm not near anything ? What if I can't wait to go hunt down a free WIFI spot before I need to make a call ? What if I or someone else is hurt and can't wait ?
To me, mobile web and ability to play games is a much smaller concern than personal safety.
My "dumbphone" saved me from bad situations by being able to make a phone call without having to walk for miles.
If I could live without mobile data, I would go for a pre-paid minutes SIM that allows you to at least connect to cell towers if you need it. There are emergencies where it's not appropriate to call 911, yet being able to call a friend or family member will save your sorry hide if you're able to.
Ultimately, I went with T-Mobile's 100 min/unlimited tex/5Gb data plan for $30/mo because it's pretty cool to be able to stream Netflix in-between my lab and other classes and to be able to use navigation if I'm lost or just need to know something without trying to find a 24/7 coffee shop with free wifi.
I've had good luck using Groove IP for phone calls, as long as you have a Google Voice account. After some echo cancelation tweaks, and putting up with an ever-so-slight lag, it was not much different than calling with a standard phone.
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