Has anyone observed a large amount of connectivity issues on their transformer?
It seem to happen often for me, where it won't load the web page completely, and (more visibly) won't connect to market or talk until after a few retries. This has happened to me on my local network, and while tethering.
I am not sure if it is a network issue or an WiFi issue. I have ran bandwidth tests (speedtest.net) and the graph will sometimes show steep drops in connectivity. I am used to seeing peaks and valleys, but these few times I tested it it pretty much dropped to 0 for a notable amount of time. When running these test on my PC between the tests on the Transformer there were no steep valleys in the graph.
Stock firmware - v .9 and updated to v .13
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So aside from the backlight problem everyone's having (replacement will be delivered monday), I noticed that wifi crapped out on me early on, to the point that my DL's were about 2-300 KB/s and uploads were at about 700KB/s. Factory reset fixed this.
Fast forward a few more hours, I decided to view some youtube clips via the youtube app and the issue occurred again, and that's when I remembered that when this happened the first time, I was using the youtube app.
It seems like using the Youtube app on this phone completely cripples the speed of a wifi transmission --possibly even 2G/3G/4G (wasn't able to test).
Factory reset fixes this. Can anyone else test this out to confirm if it might be happening on multiple phones?
What are the bandwidth speed caps on your wifi? What is your normal down and up speed?
no caps on wifi, I setup QoS filtering to prioritize my xbox 360 and flash applications. It's a Linksys G router 54 Mbps with Tomato firmware
normal speeds provided by ISP is 13-16 down and 1-2 up on an average day.
Alright I just tested and before using youtube this is what I get on speed test (mbps):
wifi:16 down, 1 up
4g:4 down, 1.3 up
then I ran a video on youtube:
wifi: 21 down, 1 up
data: 4.6 down, 1.1 up
Youtube didn't affect my data speeds. You should call t-mobile CS because the issue you're facing doesn't seem normal(continues after factory reset)
Hi guys
I'm well known for being quite wordy. I'll try to keep it short with this one. Summary: my data stream is interrupted, apps don't get or lose connection.
Network situation:
Signal strength ok up to excellent (~75-90dBm). Technology usually UMTS/HSPA, problem also occurs on GPRS/EDGE though. Happens when stationary but equally when on the move.
Devices affected:
HTC DesireZ, Samsung Galaxy Note, Samsung Galaxy SII, Motorola Defy, HTC Desire HD. Occurred first when I was using the DesireZ but is still happening now on the Galaxy Note.
Issue/problem description:
Despite the steady and good connection to the network and of course an open data connection - we speak of Android - the actual data flow seems to be/get interrupted all the time.
When I hit a window of "data deadness" the browser doesn't load pages, online-apps refuse to work showing a spinning busy/wait indicator and eventually timing out, Maps doesn't load content, Tapatalk throws an error, in short: any online bound activity comes to a halt, despite the connection being "up".
Bad issue: when at some point the timing is really bad, GMail push gets interrupted. Worst issue: GTalk is unable to stay online. Basically whenever I load/bring to foreground GTalk, it has to reconnect. It also loses connection though when in foreground. Wake up the device, GTalk greys out the contact list and first has to reconnect. This can happen after 5 minutes, but also several times within a minute. There is no indication of any interruption or error, data just doesn't flow.
I discussed the issue several times with my providers network engineers, they are unable to help at this point. They observed my device and are happy to report that wherever I was, I had good signal and am usually connected to their HSPA network. No anomalies. The engineer yesterday said they rebooted all antennas around where I am the most, they all rebooted and came back up without any error, so their network seems to be fine, from his perspective. Since it does not only happen to me, but to several friends and relatives, and on several devices, at very different locations (one friend lives 150km away) it must be something they changed in the network. The outages don't happen when connected via WIFI, Talk is rock-solid then, they also don't happen when using another operator. One friend even tested with a pre-pay card from another operator in another country: stable connection, all the time.
So what I'm looking for is some kind of a possibility to collect logs, network data, anything to somehow try to pin down the issue and solve it. It's not like the operator is unwilling to help, he said he is just running out of options. And since it works brilliantly via WIFI, on other operators and did work for years on my operator until last August/September-ish, it must somehow be solvable. It's not the services, it's the network.
Anyone any options or ideas? Maybe an insider which has an idea what it could be?
#Tapatalk #Galaxy Note
I have the same problem
Sent from my GT-S5670 using xda premium
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Does anyone know of a possibility to steadily log network connectivity, data streams/flow, network stability or interruptions? It is turning me crazy and I don't know how to help my network provider help me. Duh...
The signal strength indicator will usually change colors when a internet connection is lost or being established. I believe the default colors are green for connected or grey for disconnected. On Motoblur its blue for connected and white for disconnected so the colors may very.
When it drops is the indicator changing colors or is data just dropping?
...not on Samsung-ROM's. The ability is not implemented in Samsung-ROM's.
I was running Cyanogenmod on a DesireZ, where the indicator is implemented. I also suffered the same problem on the DesireZ. The indicator never changed.
As described above, the data connection to the network is up constantly, indicated by a never-changing G, E, 3G or H+ indicator. Signal levels are good or excellent. There is no feedback by the system or obvious indication that the connection is interrupted. I do notice it only by (online) apps suffering a time-out situation, usually only when actually in use and in front. As for example:
- (mentioned) Talk having to re-sign in when being brought to front all couple minutes.
- (mentioned) GMail losing server-connection and push-capability.
- (mentioned) When trying to browse a page in the browser.
- When pulling up a train table on the public transport app.
- When buying a "mobile-ticket" in the same app, often while verifying my CCard details.
- (mentioned) When browsing various forums with Tapatalk.
- Trying to load videos in YouTube app.
Uuuhm... running out of examples
Wow, so this is pretty interesting. Today I was fiddling around with VPNs (ends up being unrelated), and noticed that my wifi speed as shown by Speedtest was HORRIBLE. like 1mb - 6mb when it should have been close to 70mb. Not only that but while it was testing it would freeze several times during the downloads and uploads. We actually returned my husband's first tablet because of this issue, thinking it was a hardware problem. After an hour or so of fiddling around trying to figure out what happened, I noticed that Location services was on. Usually I keep this turned off on my tablet. I turned it off and ran speedtest again and what do you know. My wifi speed was back to where it should be and there were no freezes.
So what I'm wondering is... has anyone else noticed this problem? Can you reproduce it? Why would this be happening? Can anyone think of a fix for it? Most of the time keeping Location turned off won't be a problem for me, but Aereo for example, needs it turned on in order to stream shows.
One thing of note is that SpeedTest seems to rely on location services since when you fire it up with location services set to high accuracy mode the GPS radio fires up in notification panel. I'm not entirely sure that it'd be a fair assessment to say that the setting affects all wifi connectivity speeds when enabled as opposed to reduced speed during GPS use.
That said, I can't say that i'm seeing the same thing using Ookla's SpeedTest app. At first I thought I did but after toggling location services a couple times things settled in and i get consistent 55-60Mbps download test results whether location services is on or off or in high/low accuracy mode. My test results on the tablet match consistently with those of my rMBP in the same room on the same router (in the next room) using a 5ghz wireless n network.
I've never turned location services off on my tablet, opting instead to always leave it in low power mode (GPS isnt my thing, I use my cell phone for that) and have never had issues with wifi speed.
When I went back to see if I could reproduce it by turning Location back on.. it was fine. So I have no idea what's going on, lol. Maybe after leaving location on for a while it starts to degrade? I might test that out eventually. Just glad it is working better now.
Nexus 5, 4.4.4, stock
Hi,
I am trying to tether my phone to my laptop but have come across a weird issue. The phone shows signal strength of ~100dBm and HSPA.
I monitor the health of the connection by continuously pinging www.google.com. Every few minutes the ping jumps from ~100 to ~10000ms and browsing becomes impossible. The only way I have found of getting it back is to turn on and off aeroplane mode and then re-enable tethering.
I think its something to do with the HSPA connection reducing to 3G when not in use, hence keeping a continuous ping going, but this hasn't helped.
I installed RF Signal Tracker to try and work out what is going on. The graph showing signal strength hovers around 100dBm but occasionally blips to ~50dBm (still HSPA) for a few seconds, which is when the ping rockets and the connection becomes unusable.
I am tearing my hair out trying to get this to work properly - can anyone shed any light on what is going on?
many thanks
This is my story:
I have finally fixed my Nexus 5 that had a broken motherboard issue since Septamber 2015 (I didn´t find anyone who could fix it here in Uruguay).
Once It turned on it connected to my home's Wi-Fi and starting suggesting uploads. And I did, first to Android M, then January 2016 fix, then February's and March's.
And then after waiting for all the apps to update, I started using it.
I quickly noticed the battery drain regarding wifi and I looked up in the forums and fixed it (i think). But then some other things came up, but, the most important is:
When I connect my phone to my home Wi-Fi, it just takes all the bandwidth, and if I do an adsl test on my pc, it displays the downloading speed down to 1.x instead of 15.x Mbps.
Thing is, when I am connected, even the internet speed of my phone is slow. and when I turn Wi-Fi off on my phone, my pc´s Wi-Fi´s speed is back to 15.x Mbps, and my phone on LTE has a normal internet traffic.
I have tried to search for this issue over the internet, but maybe it is a translation issue not finding the right word, but only the "battery drain due to wifi issue on android" comes up.
Any clue?
Thanks.