Hey now-
Im not sure what is happening with my mobile irc.
Instant DC and one client reports back a "SASL error: must authenticate using SASL on this server"
Googling the problem found one helpful post HERE.
This seems to be a result of the IPbackhaul for 4g.(?) I'm not sure if ive just got a funky modcell near me im locked onto or what but when i do a speedtest from the browser on 4g it always pings me back to Kansas City (im in california lol).
So my question: Wouldn't it be faster and easier to just switch to 3g (or edge for that matter) when i want to use the irc?
I'm going to search for something to do just that- (does it exsist without rooting?)
Curious what the bigbrains thought of this situation. (and my pinging KC?)
thanks for the flames and help in advance
"Look at the Big Brain on Brad"
You can do this without rooting...
*#*#4636#*#* from your dialer will take you to your hidden menu.
Choose Phone information
Set Preferred Network type
Currently this will be WCDMA preferred, if you change it to GSM only, it will only connect to Edge
As far as your speed tests are concerned, a couple things might be happening. If you're using speedtest.net app, wait for the GPS to find you. When you open the app it will start a GPS search and should be able to find you and redirect you to the closest speed test server. If you don't wait, it's going to use the closest spot to which the IP address your phone is using comes from (and from the sounds of other users, it looks like ATTs IP addresses come from the Kansas City area)
Thnx alot i will check it out!
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In Settings>Applications>Manage Applications there is "Field Test" listed right below "Email"
Does anyone know how to start the field test mode?
It is also under system/app/FieldTest.apk.
Search FieldTest in this page:
http://modmygphone.com/wiki/index.php/Android_File_List
Download the AnyCut app from the Market. Then return to your home screen, and long press > Shortcut > Any Cut
Then choose 'Activity' and scroll down to Field Test. Accept it, and run it from Home.
Done.
It seems to have quite a few 2G/3G/etc. status information options, as well as tests. I am not sure what most of them do, so I haven't messed with it much.
i messed with some..
I messed with most all of them alot didn't seem to work and all of them I understood yery little but you can get lists of you neighbor cells from one of them...
bhang
This Application also Exist in Nokia Symbian Devices and Apple iPhone and it very very useful for Diagnostic Pepose of Radio Frequency
But... does it works??? I am VERY interested to this application!!!
It work perfectly
field test modes
ALL phones have a fieldtest mode, it test signal stregnth, shows neighbor cell sites.
Your phone is constantly looking for cell sites that neighbor the one your in to make the best decision on which to hop to when the one your on is fading out, and your phone never knows which way you might travel.
There is tons of other stuff this one is the most complex and info rich test mode.
Alas most of it won't make any sence but it looks cool. I'm still playing with it and will post anything I figure out.
If there is a wireless site tech that could shed some light on the more useful bits of info.
Bhang
Does the WCMDA page work?
On my phone, the RxLevel is always -64db.
havent messed to much
If testing a wcdma you would have to be under a tower equipped with that technology, it looks to my untrained eye that the g1 has the hardware to work just about anywhere, it works in lots of different countries AS-IS, with that and the vauge definitions of the radio in the specs from htc/goog/android.
Its always easier to make universal hardware and just cripple it where necessary, hopefully open source will open the dream to as many nets as possible.
So if you were in an area with the wcdma and it was in use you'd see stuff in that part of the fieldtest.
Just like the 3g stuff shows nothing in the gprs tower that serves my house, and full 3g coverage is less than 10mins away but seperated by the chesapeake and delaware canal, and for some reason everything takes forever to come to my side of the canal, just got cable modems 2 years ago and fios about 6 months, tmob has no time table for my upgrades but all exsisting gprs towers are first on the list to go...
Bhang
Could you please help to verify the RxLevel on the WCDMA page is working when the phone is in 3G mode?
I have tested several times, it doesn't work. I am sure the phone was in 3G mode, and I can see some other 3G related pages were working that time.
Neither the 3G DCH page works for me.
I am still on the RC19 version though.
wcdma vs hspda?
blues said:
Could you please help to verify the RxLevel on the WCDMA page is working when the phone is in 3G mode?
I have tested several times, it doesn't work. I am sure the phone was in 3G mode, and I can see some other 3G related pages were working that time.
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HSPDA maybe?
I gotta do more reading on the 3g stuff, Im an advanced hobbiest on the older tech but I dont know alot about any 3g
Where I can download AnyCut? I am from Italy and I have heard that I don't have access to android market, so how can I find the AnyCut application to install and use on my G1?
P.S. The G1 is on the way, I haven't it yet...
market only
AFAIK, the apps aren't available yet as .apk (kinda like a .jar afaik)
If they were we would probably be able to use the sd as a place to store apps
Bhang
If you have a data plan, you should have access to the market I'm pretty sure. Although I could be wrong.
you might have to run the field test while having an ACTIVE connection for some of the values to actually show up. At least on the iPhone that was the case
blues said:
Could you please help to verify the RxLevel on the WCDMA page is working when the phone is in 3G mode?
I have tested several times, it doesn't work. I am sure the phone was in 3G mode, and I can see some other 3G related pages were working that time.
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blues doubtful that wcdma is working, GSM carriers do not use wcdma its UMTS for 3g with T-Mobile/ATT
korndub said:
blues doubtful that wcdma is working, GSM carriers do not use wcdma its UMTS for 3g with T-Mobile/ATT
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UMTS uses WCDMA as its air interface (whereas the 2G GSM networks use TDMA).
i stand corrected.. thanks for the education.
The empty rx level in the WCDMA page can still be retrieved from other sources like the java api.
The worst thing is the 3G DCH Status page is totally blank. None of the ECNO values can be seen. Not sure how useful this is for tmobile people, if they want to verify the 3G network performance.
I have a Captivate running Cognition V2.2.Beta1. Using either usb tether or wireless tether, I get pings of 600+ and slow upload/download speeds.
http://www.speedtest.net/result/1064395617.png
http://www.speedtest.net/result/1064400255.png
Anyone else getting better results? Anyone know how to optimize/fix the issue?
it's because you're pinging and speed testing on a server 400 miles away from where your phone accesses the internet. where you personally are located is not necessarily where your phone connects to the internet. that speedtest app using your location to suggest "nearby" servers to test on instead of using your ip address. testing on servers closest to where your ip address routes to/from will get you much better results.
edit: for instance, I'm currently in central new jersey, but the speedtest app suggests a server 220 miles away in virginia because I disabled the location services (gps and wireless networks) and it is now using my ip address to suggest the closest servers.
slifer315 said:
it's because you're pinging and speed testing on a server 400 miles away from where your phone accesses the internet. where you personally are located is not necessarily where your phone connects to the internet. that speedtest app using your location to suggest "nearby" servers to test on instead of using your ip address. testing on servers closest to where your ip address routes to/from will get you much better results.
edit: for instance, I'm currently in central new jersey, but the speedtest app suggests a server 220 miles away in virginia because I disabled the location services (gps and wireless networks) and it is now using my ip address to suggest the closest servers.
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Actually I manually selected the server in San Diego as that is where I connecting from.
What I am really trying to do is get this to work with a good enough ping to play Aion an MMORPG when traveling and in a hotel room.
what are your results when you pick the recommended server?
San Fran:
http://www.speedtest.net/result/1064446975.png
http://www.speedtest.net/result/1064447880.png
http://www.speedtest.net/result/1064448553.png
you should try a rom with HSUPA support such as assonance, perception, axura, or even the latest cognition now has HSUPA support. you'll get higher upload speeds and therefore a lower ping. then maybe you'll be able to play in very low populated areas because too many other players or monsters would flood your bandwidth with data and therefore cause you to lag out.
Im thinking about it. You said the voice quality goes down with one of those roms however?
I also thinking the upgrade process from 2.2b1 is going to be ugly/hard to do since with this rom it doesn't support clockwork.
call quality used to be bad, but the jk3 modem included in most of them is crystal clear. just find an update.zip from somewhere on this forum that contains clockworkmod recovery, put it on your sd card, odin one click back to stock, do not master clear, reboot to recovery, reinstall packages twice to install clockwordmod recovery, data wipe / factory reset in recovery, and finally flash your rom of choice. as long as you don't change that update.zip, which you shouldn't ever need to, you can use this method to flash any rom in the future.
slifer315 said:
it's because you're pinging and speed testing on a server 400 miles away from where your phone accesses the internet. where you personally are located is not necessarily where your phone connects to the internet. that speedtest app using your location to suggest "nearby" servers to test on instead of using your ip address. testing on servers closest to where your ip address routes to/from will get you much better results.
edit: for instance, I'm currently in central new jersey, but the speedtest app suggests a server 220 miles away in virginia because I disabled the location services (gps and wireless networks) and it is now using my ip address to suggest the closest servers.
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Where you are physically located has nothing to do with it (or not much in picking a server). Your phone gets on the cellular network near your house. Its data transits AT&Ts servers and hits the Internet wherever it exits the AT&T data centers - usually Dallas, TX. Best results are when SpeedTest tells you as that server is closest to the AT&T Proxy server that is putting you online.
Cell Phone networks were not built with Latency or ping times in mind, so tethering will give mediocre performance. Aircards tend to do better as carriers and prioritize traffic for PCs over phones - also depending on how you are tethered, there may even be one less hop.
alphadog00 said:
Where you are physically located has nothing to do with it (or not much in picking a server). Your phone gets on the cellular network near your house. Its data transits AT&Ts servers and hits the Internet wherever it exits the AT&T data centers - usually Dallas, TX. Best results are when SpeedTest tells you as that server is closest to the AT&T Proxy server that is putting you online.
Cell Phone networks were not built with Latency or ping times in mind, so tethering will give mediocre performance. Aircards tend to do better as carriers and prioritize traffic for PCs over phones - also depending on how you are tethered, there may even be one less hop.
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that was exactly my point.
slifer315 said:
that was exactly my point.
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Yes, but picking your IP address should give you the same physical location as the speedtest.net servers - that is how they locate you - IP geo-location. Your IP address is the last hop Speedtest sees - they are trying to ping you. If you pick your physical location then the speedtest has to cross the internet to your IP address then ride the carrier network back to your physical location.
Picking your physical address should make ping times and speedtest times longer.
I second using a HSUPA rom. I've been on perception for the last 2 weeks using it to tether my pc for some Black Ops Multiplayer. On the cognition rom i would regularly ping about 300+ with 1.5mb down/1up. Now with perception 7 i am pinging under <100 with 3.5mb down/ 1.5up. Its all in the modem the rom is using.
So I work in midtown Manhattan, and in my particular building, ATT's service is very spotty, specifically where I sit. You'd think the 28th floor near Times Square would get great reception, but I don't. Oftentimes my network connectivity will go completely blank w/ absolutely no service, then turn back on. I've called ATT, switched to a 4G sim card, they pushed updates, rebooted my phone, etc. all to no avail. I still get very spotty service.
EXCEPT I just figured out if I have an app w/ streaming data running (run once there is an initial connection of course), it actually maintains the connection (currently using the streaming music app "di.fm" and "sky.fm", Pandora would prob work as well). I'm assuming this is because the phone locks onto a specific tower and doesn't let go as long as the app is accessing the data continuously.
Is there a way for my phone to stay connected to a specific tower and not jump around without running a streaming app? Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks!
I hate to say this but it's your area during peak times. I work downtown near the Brooklyn Bridge and experience the same thing. Until AT&T finishes the backhaul this is what we're stuck with. Build props and other mods are shots in the dark but won't help much.
Sent from Desire HD or Inspire 4G or whatever this thing is called via premium XDA app.
Unless they give him a microcell.
Since they know you've been having issues, they might give you one for free.
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But why am I able to maintain connection when running a streaming app? If traffic was the reason why my connection was dropping, wouldn't it still do so?
I think the tech guy said something about how my phone would try to connect to a tower 20 miles away when there are half a dozen right around me. When my phone does have reception, it's probably because it's hooked up to one of the close local towers, and running a streaming app forces it to stay locked onto that one...
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But why am I able to maintain connection when running a streaming app? If traffic was the reason why my connection was dropping, wouldn't it still do so?
I think the tech guy said something about how my phone would try to connect to a tower 20 miles away when there are half a dozen right around me. When my phone does have reception, it's probably because it's hooked up to one of the close local towers, and running a streaming app forces it to stay locked onto that one...
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When idle it's easier to drop connections as the phone switches frequencies. Here's a couple of things to do if you haven't done so already.
Make sure you're running the stock radio, if you haven't flashed another radio you're running the stock one.
Change to usa bands only. Open the dialer, press: *#*#4636#*#* Go to phone information. Press menu then press select radio band. Then select USA only. Give it a few seconds while it reconnects.
OK I'll let you know if it maintains network connection any better.
Also, what about the preferred network type? The options I have are:
- WCDMA preferred
- GSM only
- WCDMA only
- GSM auto (PRL)
- CDMA auto (PRL)
- CDMA only
- GSM/CDMA auto (PRL)
- Unknown
It was previously on WCDMA preferred, but should it be GSM/CDMA auto (PRL)?
I tried to search the forum and Google, but I couldn't come up with much of anything. I have sprint LTE service and live in Oregon, when I try speedtest.net it always says I am in Houston or some Midwest state and defaults the test server to it. I wonder why this happens, if its normal, if running someones built rom might have some of their info in the system still causing this? And does this effect my network LTE performance. If it is directing me to Texas, for instance say I play a game online with a local server, is my connection first going to Texas gateway and then back to Oregon?
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I tried to search the forum and Google, but I couldn't come up with much of anything. I have sprint LTE service and live in Oregon, when I try speedtest.net it always says I am in Houston or some Midwest state and defaults the test server to it. I wonder why this happens, if its normal, if running someones built rom might have some of their info in the system still causing this? And does this effect my network LTE performance. If it is directing me to Texas, for instance say I play a game online with a local server, is my connection first going to Texas gateway and then back to Oregon?
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It has nothing to do with your network that is just where the speed test is hosted, basically your phone is getting data from that server and measures how fast you get it.
If you are using the Speedtest app go into settings and you can manually change your server.
I have a corporate intranet site I need to access from my phone (it's a SSL site with a port - ie https://example.com:1234/). Had no issues getting to it on my N4 using the stock browser, FireFox and Chrome.
Have tried both FireFox and Chrome on my N5 and I keep getting Server Not Found error on both browsers. Pop the SIM back in my N4 and it comes right up.
Have tried the 'Request Desktop Site' on Chrome and FireFox as well without success.
Chrome reports a ERR_TUNNEL_CONNECTION_FAILED error.
As an update, I have found that I can access the page when connected to a wi-fi network, but not when on AT&T cell network.
Intranet=internal network. If it's reachable from an outside network it isn't intranet. FYI
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Pirateghost said:
Intranet=internal network. If it's reachable from an outside network it isn't intranet. FYI
Sent from my Nexus 5
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Yep. Sorry. The keys here are the non-standard port and the fact that I can access the site on any wi-fi network but for some reason not AT&T's cell network on my N5.
I am going to dig out my N4 and see if there is something different in the AT&T network settings between the two devices next. Was hoping that rooting might help (the N4 was rooted), but that didn't work either.
Anyone working on a custom 4.3 ROM ....
Success!
The N4 did not have a proxy set up in the APN settings, but the N5 did. Deleting it fixed the problem.
Sorry. My former boss used to keep calling our website an intranet, and he refused to acknowledge the difference. Lol. It became a pet peeve of mine. Apologies for interrupting.
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