Related
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
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.
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
Does anyone know if this works and I am just not seeing the video icons in my friends list, or if this is prohibited with the Gtalk pre-installed on the sensation.
IF the latter is there an open APK that will allow this from another forum perhaps?
RW
Official app only works in 2.3.4
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1103988
Got it Thanks!
Would be nice to get that update soon;-)
Swyped from HTC Pyramid, using XDA Premium App.
Hi, jz thought that I ask .. is there another video call app that you guys use other than QIK .. also tried Yahoo but they both equally suck
Sent from my HTC Sensation 4G using XDA App
qdochemistry said:
Hi, jz thought that I ask .. is there another video call app that you guys use other than QIK .. also tried Yahoo but they both equally suck
Sent from my HTC Sensation 4G using XDA App
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.skymobius.vtok
FRING
Try using fring, it has 4 way video conference!!
Fire Mars said:
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.skymobius.vtok
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
only bad thing about VTOK is when I had it installed it never shut off & drained by battery quickly. Even with the screen off, it was always using the CPU & keeping wifi on. Signing out of your google account didn't shut it down either
I've emailed the developer but still haven't heard back after a week.
On my galaxy tab I am running the Overcome 2.0.1 ROM which is a Gingerbread 2.3.3. The version of Google talk pre-installed with it does video chat. Perhaps there it a way to extract the APK from the galaxy Tab and use it with our 2.3.3 phones?
I could be completely wrong on this, but...
I believe that the Talk app is installed into the system folder and therefore we'd have to push the replacement file into the system folder, which we can't do right now?
xnifex said:
only bad thing about VTOK is when I had it installed it never shut off & drained by battery quickly. Even with the screen off, it was always using the CPU & keeping wifi on. Signing out of your google account didn't shut it down either
I've emailed the developer but still haven't heard back after a week.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Thanks, i uninstalled it right away when i checked my running services
tango works for the sensation https://market.android.com/details?id=com.sgiggle.production&feature=search_result
and you cannot change the gtalk app without root
Is there any current app that let's you have video call from computer to the Sensation? My wife has Skype on her laptop but for android doesn't show and available.
Sent from my HTC Sensation 4G using XDA App
side357 said:
Is there any current app that let's you have video call from computer to the Sensation? My wife has Skype on her laptop but for android doesn't show and available.
Sent from my HTC Sensation 4G using XDA App
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
+1
Sent from my HTC Sensation 4G using XDA Premium App
Sorry don't understand if +1 is an app or just stating there is one.
Sent from my HTC Sensation 4G using XDA App
side357 said:
Sorry don't understand if +1 is an app or just stating there is one.
Sent from my HTC Sensation 4G using XDA App
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Basically upping your question.
Sent from my HTC Sensation 4G
Hi guys,
What version of Talk actually works on the Sensation then? I have insertcoin 3.3.9 which gives me android 2.3.5 with 3.5 sense but i cannot for the life of me work out how to get the video icons on my contacts. I have tried everything and still nothing as even tapping on my avatar does not give me an option to enable / disable video.
Anyone know what i need to do?
So far it's been working for me with most of the versions of InsertCoin. Just make sure that the contacts on the side has enabled their option to receive video calls.
Sent from my HTC Sensation Z710e using Tapatalk
Hi,
Do you know what i need to do if i want to use the back camera during video chat? There is no rotate funciton in gtalk like there is in Honeycomb
Do you use the wifi feature on your thunderbolt and if so have you used it in your gaming console and do you get lag on it?
I'm assuming you mean mobile hotspot feature and I have tried it and yes I do get lag. The mobile hotspot does not give great constant signal so there are many breaks and drop outs. I would not recommend using this but give it a shot if you want.
Hope this helps
The factory mobile hotspot app has a cap on the speed. I get better results from other tether apps.
Sent from my ADR6400L using XDA App
vypurr said:
The factory mobile hotspot app has a cap on the speed. I get better results from other tether apps.
Sent from my ADR6400L using XDA App
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Agreed, you will get better results from additional tether apps that are offered.
vypurr said:
The factory mobile hotspot app has a cap on the speed. I get better results from other tether apps.
Sent from my ADR6400L using XDA App
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
+1
even using other tether apps, things like online gaming and streaming video are not exactly ideal
Tried xbox live through it and was disconnected while searching for any online games. I would say that it's probably not the best idea.
I play wow, with vent and sometimes pandora on 2-3 bars of 3g with low pings...
Edit: using easytether (wired)
Sent from my ADR6400L using Tapatalk
I played some games and downloaded so songs with PDA net on my desktop. It was really fast on 4G. But you have to pay for PDA net aftrler awhile. I use wireless tether to connect my xoom when I need it
Sent from my ADR6400L using XDA App
Haven't messed with the wireless to much I'd go with a third party app for it. Or USB tether. Can run xbox live with usb tether even without much problems. Atleast in my experience
Sent from my ADR6400L using Tapatalk