Database Info

Speed test

Everytime I run a speed test it will change from Modesto being closer to me which is true but sometimes it will say Kansas is closer. Even though kansas is really far. Anybody else experience that?
Sent from my Desire HD using XDA Premium App

XAviierG said:
Everytime I run a speed test it will change from Modesto being closer to me which is true but sometimes it will say Kansas is closer. Even though kansas is really far. Anybody else experience that?
Sent from my Desire HD using XDA Premium App
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Yes i Have that problem now. I tried enabling GPS and clearing the data but that did not fix it either.
uninstalling the app did not fix the location problem.

I connected to my home WiFi and it found the sever that was really close to me.
Sent from my HTC Inspire 4G

I think its because of how ATT assigns ip addresses. If you do a who is of your ip it will be somewhere far far away from you lol.
Sent from my Desire HD using XDA App

slocav said:
I think its because of how ATT assigns ip addresses. If you do a who is of your ip it will be somewhere far far away from you lol.
Sent from my Desire HD using XDA App
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Yes I agree.

Thats horrible because my speeds go down then get faster.
Sent from my Desire HD using XDA Premium App

Leave it on the main screen for about 3-5 min then after that go to settings and look for the closets server.

Colombia81er said:
Leave it on the main screen for about 3-5 min then after that go to settings and look for the closets server.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Made no difference. It has to be based on ip address and not phone location. Idk.
Edit: just confirmed this. I turned on my WiFi and it found the nearest to me.
Sent from my Desire HD using XDA App

How funny, I'm in the Modesto area as well, and I also get Kansas as being closer.
Sent from my Desire HD using XDA App

From speedtest.net
http://www.speedtest.net/support.php said:
How does Speedtest.net know where I am?
Your location is determined based on your IP address. Speedtest.net then uses GeoIP data from MaxMind to determine your approximate location. We have recently added Location-Aware browsing such as this one from Firefox all of which require explicit acceptance by you to better refine your location. All of these services are utilized to better serve you, most importantly determining the optimal testing server from among the hundreds we have available. Learn more about the MaxMind GeoIP data.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
From SPEEDTEST.NET MOBILE
http://www.speedtest.net/support.php said:
Why is my location not recognized?
If you are testing over a Wifi connection your location is determined by the modem's GeoIP information provided by Maxmind's database. Your GeoIP information must be updated with Maxmind's database before the change will be reflected in the application. If you are testing over 3G, 4G, Edge or a similar alternative, GPS is used to determine your location. Be sure you have enabled GPS locating enabled on your mobile device.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
This seems to be correct because this app uses GPS when I open it. But it never seems to find my location.

Just connect to wifi, open speed test let it find server, which with my experience will be the closest to you run it once, open server changesettings make sure you selected closest to you, disable wifi and then run. Takes a bit but thats how I always get the server in Las Vegas
Sent From My HTC Inspire 4G | [ROM] LeeDrOiD 4G v2.2.2 | [KERNEL] LeeDrOiD v2.2.9 OC @ 1.5Ghz

When I do that I run it and it instant change servers
Sent from my Desire HD using XDA Premium App

XAviierG said:
When I do that I run it and it instant change servers
Sent from my Desire HD using XDA Premium App
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
You can't shut speed test down use the task manager. Connect like I said make sure you just opened settings. Then while its opened and your in the server you want, push and hold the home button on the bottom and switch to settings. Turn off wifi and then use the task manager again and switch to speed test app and bam there ya go
Sent From My HTC Inspire 4G | [ROM] LeeDrOiD 4G v2.2.2 | [KERNEL] LeeDrOiD v2.2.9 OC @ 1.5Ghz

hiltun said:
From speedtest.net
From SPEEDTEST.NET MOBILE
This seems to be correct because this app uses GPS when I open it. But it never seems to find my location.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Weird. Mine never has used gps.
Sent from my Desire HD using XDA App

slocav said:
Weird. Mine never has used gps.
Sent from my Desire HD using XDA App
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I normally have gps turned off but if I have it on you can see the gps icon in the task bar blinking.

hiltun said:
I normally have gps turned off but if I have it on you can see the gps icon in the task bar blinking.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Very interesting.
Sent from my Desire HD using XDA App

[REQUEST] Upload Large Videos to YouTube over 4G rather than WiFi

What is the point of the 4G network if I can't use it. First off all the only way I can share my high quality videos is YouTube. Second I can't upload them to YouTube without having WiFi access.
I'm at college where the WiFi signal is horrible so I was wondering if someone had a work around or a hack that could allow me to upload my "large" video to Youtube over 4G (it's less than a minute of 720p recording).
Thanks for any help.

Tether to your laptop and upload it that way.
Sent from my ADR6400L using Tapatalk

Youtube app needs fixed. It's broke. I get errors saying I can't upload files bigger than 1GB when my file is like 500MB.
Thunderbolt «» das BAMF Remix

Kid_Cudi said:
Youtube app needs fixed. It's broke. I get errors saying I can't upload files bigger than 1GB when my file is like 500MB.
Thunderbolt «» das BAMF Remix
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
same here
Sent from my PC36100 using XDA Premium App

want a droid said:
What is the point of the 4G network if I can't use it. First off all the only way I can share my high quality videos is YouTube. Second I can't upload them to YouTube without having WiFi access.
I'm at college where the WiFi signal is horrible so I was wondering if someone had a work around or a hack that could allow me to upload my "large" video to Youtube over 4G (it's less than a minute of 720p recording).
Thanks for any help.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I never went to college but i'm shocked to here yours has poor wifi. don't they hardwire the dorms with ethernet and you can use your own router?
Sent from my PC36100 using XDA Premium App

OneStepAhead said:
I never went to college but i'm shocked to here yours has poor wifi. don't they hardwire the dorms with ethernet and you can use your own router?
Sent from my PC36100 using XDA Premium App
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
The dorms here have terrible wifi, they cap the speeds so you might get 3 megabits down/up. ethernet is the same, and they don't let you use your own routers here. some schools are picky.
also just log into youtube, click "mobile setup" and send your videos to the email they give you.

[Q] using phone and TF as a video monitoring system

Is there an app that will allow you to place your phone somewhere and use your TF as a monitor in real time (seeing what the phone's camera sees?

There are plenty of ip webcam apps in the market.
droidcam
ip webcam
icam
tiny cam monitor

qik doe live streaming from phone to web aslo
sent from my LEE Pad Transformer........I wish

Thank you both very much....I'll check them all out....

Who are you creeping on?

Lol...no creeping...just messing around with my new TF....

I've done this using ipwebcam (from market) running on my nexus one and tiny cam monitor (from market) running on my tf. Works great and quality is pretty decent. I used it to spy on my dog.
Sent from my GT-I9000 using XDA App

That IP Webcam app is decent. Been trying to use it to remotely monitor some newborn puppies. I prefer to just put a password up and use the TF's web browser to view in javascript.
I'd like a way to prolong my phones battery though. The phone gets too hot when plugged in via charger. I tried selecting the option to allow it to switch off the screen, as that gobbles a lot of power. Unfortunately this stops it broadcasting. I have my phone so it keeps the wifi on when the screen is off, but cant find out whether its switching off the camera, the cpu, or what its doing when the screen goes off.
Anyone know of an app to keep things alive when the screen is off please?

xiophyte said:
I've done this using ipwebcam (from market) running on my nexus one and tiny cam monitor (from market) running on my tf. Works great and quality is pretty decent. I used it to spy on my dog.
Sent from my GT-I9000 using XDA App
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
thanks...I'll give that a shot too...!
I might have a few questions though

seshmaru said:
Who are you creeping on?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
lol - we all thought it but you said it.

Well,
Ipwebcam and tiny cam monitor didn't work because I'm at work and I think that there is a problem with the ips or ports or something...it hung on "camera loading."

xiophyte said:
I used it to spy on my dog.
Sent from my GT-I9000 using XDA App
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
LOL! What did you find out?

I have a linksys web cam that allows me to view on a dyndns site. It's all black in the cam box. It does require activex installation so I don't know if that is the issue with TF browser and if it's possible at all to have add-on.

Slow 4G

I have had great speeds with my 4g network.......out of nowhere after I did a hard reset ofbthe early gingerbread release now on speedtest.net I am getting 21kbps and its taking ridiculously long to download anything. 4g is showing up as active tho. Anybody have an idea as to why it would slow down all of a sudden or had this problem before? Just wondering if its t mobiles network or something wrong with my phone. Someone else I know has the same phone and speedtest is giving them 7000+ kbps. SN: they are n the same area as me
Sent from my LG-P999 using XDA App

Krucial said:
I have had great speeds with my 4g network.......out of nowhere after I did a hard reset ofbthe early gingerbread release now on speedtest.net I am getting 21kbps and its taking ridiculously long to download anything. 4g is showing up as active tho. Anybody have an idea as to why it would slow down all of a sudden or had this problem before? Just wondering if its t mobiles network or something wrong with my phone. Someone else I know has the same phone and speedtest is giving them 7000+ kbps. SN: they are n the same area as me
Sent from my LG-P999 using XDA App
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Did you by any chance download over 5 gigs?? ever thought you might be throttled?? did you get tmo message saying you went over your download limit?? If you did then your download speeds are throttled to 56k until the billing cycle ends.
G2X

I get lucky to get 1.5mbps on this so called 4G. But hey, i get 1.5mbps from verizon too. Good riddance. And I live in new york.
Sent from my LG-P999 using XDA App

Don't know why your 4G is slow, but I'm in Hawaii and I too sometimes have horrible 4G connection...BUT, I have found an AWESOME solution for this and not will it only speed up your browsing, you will also extend your battery life and be able to multitask, with live active tabs that will keep streaming video and audio in one window while surfing on another!
The solution is download for free from the market Opera Mini 6 for the FASTEST mobile browsing and if you want Flash videos and live active tabs that will still stream while jumping between tabs download Opera Mobile 11.
Then you can disable 4G and opt only to use 2G, which increases your battery life by up to 4 times, because the Opera browsers renders the web pages server side, thereby speeding up the browsing experience and lessening the data that you would otherwise be using up on your limited or "unlimited" plan.
If you're not familiar with the Award winning Opera mini browser at first you might be appalled that it looks to basic and doesn't support flash (Opera Mobile does support flash videos), but after you learn and get used to the browsers, you'll find that it's the BEST, most refined browser for a mobile device. Period.
Don't forget to enable Turbo mode if you opt to use Opera Mobile, but Opera Mini is still by far the fastest mobile browser on the planet even if you only use 2G. Hope this helps with your slow connection and the G2x horrible battery life.
EDIT: besides setting network to only 2G and using the Opera mobile or mini browser to surf the web, another tweak for even longer battery life is to disable background data. As always you can always enable 4G and background data if you don't care about battery life by downloading the 2g-3g OnOff widget from the market to easily switch between 2g and 4g.

Sounds like you work for Opera.
Sent from my LG-P999 using XDA Premium App

Seanathan said:
Sounds like you work for Opera.
Sent from my LG-P999 using XDA Premium App
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
+1 lol
G2X

fcisco13 said:
Did you by any chance download over 5 gigs?? ever thought you might be throttled?? did you get tmo message saying you went over your download limit?? If you did then your download speeds are throttled to 56k until the billing cycle ends.
G2X
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
It would only be 2 gigs if its the new unlimited everything plan.
Sent from my LG-P999 using XDA App

Krucial said:
I have had great speeds with my 4g network.......out of nowhere after I did a hard reset ofbthe early gingerbread release now on speedtest.net I am getting 21kbps and its taking ridiculously long to download anything. 4g is showing up as active tho. Anybody have an idea as to why it would slow down all of a sudden or had this problem before? Just wondering if its t mobiles network or something wrong with my phone. Someone else I know has the same phone and speedtest is giving them 7000+ kbps. SN: they are n the same area as me
Sent from my LG-P999 using XDA App
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Check your data usage on your T-Mobile account online. Sounds like you might have been throttled due to reaching your data cap.
Sent from my LG-P999 using XDA App

Seanathan said:
Sounds like you work for Opera.
Sent from my LG-P999 using XDA Premium App
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I was thinking the same thing. damn.

Yeah, I can say so myself that 4G is slow. Using the speedtest app, I get .90/.70 on average. My wifes MT4G, gets an average of 5.60/1.0. I benched the phones on our kitchen table. Ran the speed tests 3 times on each phone. For signal strength, my G2x has 1-2 bars, while the MT4G has full bars.
Edit: and no, im not data throttled.

jacob808 said:
Don't know why your 4G is slow, but I'm in Hawaii and I too sometimes have horrible 4G connection...BUT, I have found an AWESOME solution for this and not will it only speed up your browsing, you will also extend your battery life and be able to multitask, with live active tabs that will keep streaming video and audio in one window while surfing on another!
The solution is download for free from the market Opera Mini 6 for the FASTEST mobile browsing and if you want Flash videos and live active tabs that will still stream while jumping between tabs download Opera Mobile 11.
Then you can disable 4G and opt only to use 2G, which increases your battery life by up to 4 times, because the Opera browsers renders the web pages server side, thereby speeding up the browsing experience and lessening the data that you would otherwise be using up on your limited or "unlimited" plan.
If you're not familiar with the Award winning Opera mini browser at first you might be appalled that it looks to basic and doesn't support flash (Opera Mobile does support flash videos), but after you learn and get used to the browsers, you'll find that it's the BEST, most refined browser for a mobile device. Period.
Don't forget to enable Turbo mode if you opt to use Opera Mobile, but Opera Mini is still by far the fastest mobile browser on the planet even if you only use 2G. Hope this helps with your slow connection and the G2x horrible battery life.
EDIT: besides setting network to only 2G and using the Opera mobile or mini browser to surf the web, another tweak for even longer battery life is to disable background data. As always you can always enable 4G and background data if you don't care about battery life by downloading the 2g-3g OnOff widget from the market to easily switch between 2g and 4g.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Who cares about Opera when we have Dolphin.How are they paying u for this?
Sent from my HTC Vision using Tapatalk

asesino said:
Who cares about Opera when we have Dolphin.How are they paying u for this?
Sent from my HTC Vision using Tapatalk
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I've tried Dolphin, it's a nice fancy browser like the stock one and safari, heck I've tried alot of mobile browsers, but the flaw with these "high profile" browsers is that they're not true multitasking browsers.
Yeah they may pretend to look like how it does on a desktop, but the moment you try and open more than one window, you effectively make the others inactive. Not only that, but to really enjoy Dolphin, Skyfire, stock, etc. you NEED to have a good 4G connection, and we all know how much energy 4G sucks out of the battery.
Opera Mobile on the other hand has true desktop mutlitasking experience. You can open many "Windows" and say watch an interview on Youtube on one, then switch to another tab, like say XDA G2x forums and read up on recent updates, while still listening to the interview that's playing on the Youtube window, then when you get bored reading XDA, you can open a 3rd window and search for online radio, all while the other windows are alive and active. All this can be done using 2G because Opera renders pages on their server saving you data usage and giving you sufficient speed on "slower" connections, all this and saving you much needed battery life.
Don't get me wrong I love the other browsers, but until they come up with a fix for the horrible 4G network and update those "high profile" browsers to use less battery, Opera Mobile and Mini are the most well thought browsers meant for mobile use.
EDIT: no I don't work for Opera, I just feel that I've found the perfect solution at the moment for some "flaws" I've discovered with the G2x and Android battery demand, and I just wanted to help out the G2x community to love even more this powerhouse of a phone without having to have battery anxiety and still enjoy a full featured internet experience on a not so fast 4G network.

Lol found out t mobile just throttled me......gay
Sent from my LG-P999 using XDA Premium App

dude i found the stock browser to be fast enough lol i mean how much faster do u need

Krucial said:
Lol found out t mobile just throttled me......gay
Sent from my LG-P999 using XDA Premium App
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Its in the contract that they'll do that. There are plans with higher data caps.

jacob808 said:
EDIT: no I don't work for Opera, I just feel that I've found the perfect solution at the moment for some "flaws" I've discovered with the G2x and Android battery demand, and I just wanted to help out the G2x community to love even more this powerhouse of a phone without having to have battery anxiety and still enjoy a full featured internet experience on a not so fast 4G network.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Dude, you called it "award winning" browser. How do you NOT work for them?
Besides, I've tried Opera and while it was great back in my Sony K750i tzones days, it is still decent for Android but not great. I prefer stock browser.
Sent from my LG-P999 using XDA Premium App

YouTube low quality

Is it possible to make the YouTube app play HD instead of HQ. The videos look pretty back and all boxy even with a fast wifi connection
~*Life is a beach, I'm just playing in the sand*~

No
Edit: maybe if you use a computer user agent in a browser that allows it.
Sent from my Nexus S 4G using XDA

Shark_On_Land said:
No
Edit: maybe if you use a computer user agent in a browser that allows it.
Sent from my Nexus S 4G using XDA
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Na
~*Life is a beach, I'm just playing in the sand*~

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1529715
do you mean this?
---===:::Greetzz, jojoost:::===---
Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk HD

Our screen is only capable of running at that resolution or that type of youtube video. Unless you get an iphone with a retina display. If you do....dont ever come back to this forum EVER... thats if you get an iphone.