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[Thunderbolt General] erishasnobattery:
Although I don't get to Ohio much, I can vouch for the rest of the states. Coverage is excellent with a few exceptions.

SE Missouri is garbage. 1X still works pretty good...128k or so. You won't be stranded, but don't expect to be surfing the internets at light speed.

NE Missouri and far Northwestern Illinois (Quad Cities area) is about the same. I forget the details, but some other carrier has a corner on the market up there and won't lease towers to VZW.

Same deal as above in far NW Missouri and SW Iowa. I think it's ALLTel up there.

Not much coverage from anyone in northern WI or MI.

To be honest, Big red has the best coverage, by far, of any carrier period. I've used them all and keep coming back.

4G is great where you get it. (St. Louis, Chicago, Twin Cities, Central Ohio) To be perfectly honest though, I live in St. Louis, and generally have my 4G off. It's too hard on the battery even where you have fantastic signal. I still get 1.5 Mbps on 3G and get double the use out of my phone. For normal use, this is plenty fast enough.
[Thunderbolt General] dbisch:
I live in Wheaton which is a west suburb of Chicago. Speeds are good. I usually get about 5-6 mbps down. Speeds in the city are fantastic though. I get about 15 mbps at my girlfriend's place in the West Loop.
[Thunderbolt General] rmoffitt321:
Whoever designated MN, IA, WI, IL, MO, MI, OH the midwest had never looked at a map.

Here is to hoping we get 4G in the "true" midwest of the country.
[Thunderbolt General] 00negative:
If your worried about battery life and stable connection the tbolt isn't for you, at this time. Try Droid X, Blackberry, or dare I say an iPhone. LTE is still a work in progress.
[Thunderbolt General] gatewayad:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midwestern_United_States
[Thunderbolt General] setk:
Thanks for the replies. I think we're going to stay away from 4G for now and wait til bugs see worked out and battery life is better.

Thanks
[Thunderbolt General] setk:
Thanks, gate. ;->
[Thunderbolt General] setk:
Oh no, not the iPhone! Back to the trusty old BB. I find it still the easiest to manage in a corporate environment.
[Thunderbolt General] kierandill:
If you don't stray too far from the interstate corridors, 3G was fine between my home in Lafayette, IN to eastern Ohio on my trip 2 weeks ago. Western MD on into WV might as well be a 3rd word country - no 3G at all. Not even in Morgantown near the university.

4G in Lafayette and eastern Columbus, OH. Supposedly also around Cinci. Got a brief taste of 4G on the east side of Indy last week when they apparently were testing it, but not since. Lafayette rep said by fall there will be 4G from Indy to Lafayette and everywhere in between. Can't help you with southern IN, since I haven't been there since I came back from AT&T.
[Thunderbolt General] chadstone30:
So, I bought the Thuderbolt on launch day and in half a billing cycle with the 4G I racked up 1.3 GB of usage.

Looking at this past month's bill, my first full billing cycle with the Thunderbolt, I was shocked to find that I used 4.725 GB of data last month.

I was averaging 758 MB of data per month on my Droid Incredible. So, in the name of science, pull up your last bill and let everyone know how much data you blew through last month.

What do you think? Is 5 GB/month enough to get your speeds throttled due to being in the top 5% of data users?
[Thunderbolt General] TheStick13:
Last month I was around 11gb.
[Thunderbolt General] JBAeroEngineer:
i use between 2 and 3 GB. I'd be ok with a 5 GB cap right now. Though, if I use netflix or skype... :mad: :mad:
[Thunderbolt General] psufan5:
You signed an agreement for unlimited. There is no cap. They may cap you speed wise at some point, but you can still use the data.

I used 16gb last month and I was never capped. Capping LTE is like using Yahoo as your search engine... stupid.
[Thunderbolt General] Cubs2008:
No way (at least IMO.) They're offering 10GB plans to LTE users on all devices except the Bolt (all non-phone devices.) I think you'd have to blast pretty far over that to hit that top 5 percent.
[Thunderbolt General] miketoasty:
I'm at 7.5gb with 3g only but just got 4G in my area this morning so I expect that to up big time.
[Thunderbolt General] chadstone30:
congrats. you're going to be stoked.
[Thunderbolt General] what25:
A little over 10.5GB gigs last month.

Also, in regards to the cap question, I'd think one would have to use like 50 or 100 gigs a month to be throttled. I have read claims of people using more than 120gigs, which seems like landline cable or dsl usage stats.
[Thunderbolt General] dbisch:
7.48 GB last cycle.

WTF @ the person who voted 1 GB? Honestly, if you're using less than 1 GB of data a month, why do you even need a 4G phone then?
[Thunderbolt General] eraursls1984:
0 gb, there's no 4g here yet but I average about 6 gb of 3g and 16 gb (no tethering) was my highest usage for a month.
[Thunderbolt General] miketoasty:
I have it everywhere except for my house so I know the speeds and absolutely LOVE them just glad I can now tether at home for new rom releases!
[Thunderbolt General] letzgostate:
Well, I used 72gb last month and had no issues.
[Thunderbolt General] Light1984:
~5GB here.
[Thunderbolt General] dbisch:
72 GB!? Jesus christ. Are you torrenting or something?
[Thunderbolt General] clintonroche:
I am at 6 gb and my billing period doesn't end until 5/22

sent from my Thunderbolt
[Thunderbolt General] remmbermytitans:
When I had 4G working on my phone, I installed CM7 and haven't gotten LTE since, I downloaded about 7GBs in a month, the second month I nearly hit 11GBs.
[Thunderbolt General] chadstone30:
Try the "get 4g working on cm7" thread. I can get 4g pretty reliably on the 4/20 leaked ruu radio by playing with the bands settings as described in the thread.
[Thunderbolt General] somnambulator:
680MB ... almost no tethering, no streaming music, and i'm on wifi @ home and @ work and i live 1.5mi from work so no commute...

all my data is probably from maps/navigator or youtube/radio streams when im out for a weekend.

no 4G @ home/work but it's available within 30 minutes driving so i have used it. it's not very fast in this area tho...max like 8mbps with usually 5-7
[Thunderbolt General] Legacystar:
im not entirely convinced that thunderbolt usage is being reported correctly. It says I have used 12gb and that pretty much impossible for me to believe. My normal usage on my Droid x was around 5gb and Im nkt doing anything different . Most of the time my thunderbolt is on wifi.
[Thunderbolt General] ibsk8:
Just shy of 11 gigs last month. My wife's is probably more typical at just around 3.5 gigs.
[Thunderbolt General] versatu:
70 gb and no comments from Verizon, but...let's not forget that the mobile hotspot option is still under promotion and free

i got a txt from Verizon this morning that the promotion is valid until 6/15

we will see after the promotion will end if they will start to hunt us like att does
[Thunderbolt General] jwort93:
I used aroud 1.5 GB last month. I expect that to jump up considerably now that I have subscribed to MOG though lol.
[Thunderbolt General] 1454:
No, he's just one of the douchebags that are causing the unlimited plans to go away. Just because it's an all you can eat buffet, doesn't mean you need to stuff your pockets and book bag full of food to take home.
[Thunderbolt General] rdompor:
I've been using between 2-3GB every month probably because I usually am on WiFi when I'm on campus. Now that the semester is over, I imagine I'll be on LTE a lot more often and using more data.
[Thunderbolt General] mbrown3460:
damn I used 10 gb with 5 days left in my cycle. Did Verizon say anything about there data plans changes?
[Thunderbolt General] mbrown3460:
how did you use 70 gb?
[Thunderbolt General] stayin100:
I'm calling a lot of bull**** on some of these claims. I used around 1.5 gb last month and stream lots of Pandora, an hour a day at the gym, and often at work. 3g
[Thunderbolt General] rdompor:
I agree. I would think that it would be difficult to get over 30gb without extensive tethering.
[Thunderbolt General] yareally:
Not really. Just use your phone to stream TV or other media from your home computer or server. You could also download some very large files directly on your phone.
[Thunderbolt General] stedrocklp:
I use 5-7 Gg on a 3g signal mostly just streaming sirius, using nav/maps, and general internet browsing. With the data hog phones we all have now I would say throttling at 5Gb is quite low. I would like a verizon rep to chime in so we could be sure that is the case. When I have been over 5Gb my connection has been consistent. Ill have 4g in a month or so and it will be interesting to see how that affects my usage.
[Thunderbolt General] bogatyr:
Easy with AndFTP and Remote Desktop. I keep my 32GB SD card filled with data for work and I transfer it back and forth to the FTP server. Then I hop on VPN and use remote desktop on servers to utilize the data straight from my phone.

I use 60-100GB a month using my phone for work. I don't consider it abusive, it isn't like I'm using BitTorrent on it or some other file sharing software or giving away free access with the mobile hotspot and an open wifi network.

Unlimited is unlimited, not 5GB, not 10GB, not 10000GB. If it was a specific number, it would be labeled as such.

And as to the all you can eat buffet, some people go in and eat 6+ platefuls while I eat 1 or 2. I don't look at them and say they're abusing the buffet, they're just able to eat more than I am before they're full.
[Thunderbolt General] diehl:
Last cycle:

Kilobyte Usage

KB | MB kilobytes s 20,621,793 -- --

So, a little over 20gb. Not bad for only being in a 4G area a few hours a week. :rolleyes:
[Thunderbolt General] CPCookieMan:
I get about 2GB a month but most of the time I have wifi. Have to admit though, I would never give up 4G when outside of wifi. 4G is epic.
[Thunderbolt General] rdompor:
Maybe I'm just used to being on WiFi then? I always have it nearby at school. Definitely want to see what my usage is like this summer...
[Thunderbolt General] Dspradau:
This billing cycle so far I am around 10gb. The other line on the plan is at 7gb. Have 20 days left in the cycle. A majority of this is from Skype video chat and Remote desktop access. Also YouTube once in a while.
[Thunderbolt General] JBAeroEngineer:
clocked in at 10GB this month. huge increase over last. lots of youtube HD
[Thunderbolt General] gizzymo:
I've used 4GB in 23 days... haven't really done much but Slacker and Tweetdeck. Gonna have to kick it up a bit (because obviously I can!). LOL
[Thunderbolt General] mph122074:
This month...May

I used 37.524 GB and still have 3 days left on my cycle.

WOW, Thank god for free Wi-Fi Hotspot
[Thunderbolt General] gener1c:
I am hitting anywhere from 10-15 GB a month where as with my DInc I was averaging 2-3 GB. LTE is almost as steady as my 30/30 plan on fios so I rarely use wifi on my phone.
[Thunderbolt General] allchannels99:
37 GB last month

So far 13 GB in 7 days this month.

:p
[Thunderbolt General] orkillakilla:
I don't think I've ever gone over 5GB of data in a billing cycle. Most of the time when I'm downloading ROMs and such, I'm on my home wifi.
[Thunderbolt General] D623:
I'm at 33 gigs I have 2 days left in my cycle
[Thunderbolt General] dajogejr:
I've been using 5 to 8 GB per month.

Most of that is downloading ROMs to be honest...at 250MB on average a pop...it burns up pretty quick!

However, I'm in the process of upgrading our work Internet...I'll sit on WiFi all day.

I really could cut it down by downloading all the ROMs @ home...but I paid for unlimited data...I have no problem using what I do.

It's the guys that use 50 or 100GB a month because of torrent/music hosting servers that ruin it for the 98% of us....
[Thunderbolt General] blakkheartt12:
I the july cycle I used a little over 35 GB. I watched a lot of netflix and streaming internet radio. Watching netflix uses about 2-3 Gb a day.
[Thunderbolt General] drpratik:
absolutely true.

its because of two percent of seeders , we all are screwed by telco's.

I use 2-3 gb a month over all.
[Thunderbolt General] intender:
I just got 4g on the 18th of this month which so happens to be the day after my cycle started. In the first 24 hours 3g watchdog showed me at almost 6 gb of data used. I was averaging around 10 gb a month on 3g and have been out of town for the last 9 months in a hotel trying to share a residential cable connection across almost 200 rooms. Sometimes the hotel is practically empty and its usable, when there are people there it is literally slower than dial up. I would usually tether my laptop even on 3g so now that I have 4g at the hotel as well I figure I will use 20+ gb with ease. Stream music a lot during the day and between the forums and downloading roms and now I will be able to watch netflix on my laptop.

Sent 1from my ADR6400L using XDA Premium App
[Thunderbolt General] flat4inrc:
pretty light month so far, went on vacation for a week.
[Thunderbolt General] austinaries:
Averaging 4-5 GB a month, mostly from d/l-ing roms haha.
[Thunderbolt General] loonie01:
I've used up to 19 megs a month.
[Thunderbolt General] stayin100:
Never over two gbs. I don't dl anything through my data connection as its still three gee.. I have a wicked fast cable connection at home so I'm all ways on wifi
[Thunderbolt General] idkwhothatis123:
Lmao 33gb? I hope you tether to a gaming console or torrent A Lot.

I'm Ron Burgandy?
[Thunderbolt General] bogatyr:
60GB this month, down from 80GB last.

hbogo

netflix

hulu

Linux distros

MSDN ISOs

No bittorrent

No throttling, unless you count going from 2.5Mbytes/s down to 1.2Mbytes/s during prime time hours - I consider that more people using 4G.
[Thunderbolt General] Cuz97:
I went from my x2 on 7/19 at 10.8gigs andseitched to my TB and am only at 14gigs so only another 4gigs a week. Billing cycle ends tomorrow and my DL is avg 2.5 Mbytes and upload is 3-5Mbytes. My friends dl and ul averages are twice mine so we thought that my line is being throttled
[Thunderbolt General] yareally:
∞ ;)

10 char
[Thunderbolt General] Mr. Transistor:
14Gb
[Thunderbolt General] dre4402:
im avg over 16 amonth my highest was in may i used 85 gigs did it purposely til i ran out of stuff to stream
[Thunderbolt General] NyPlaya513:
I average about 20+ a month

damn happy to be grandfathered into unlimited plan :)
[Thunderbolt General] xXJay_RXx:
That's what I'm sayin. That's just overkill right there. No need at all to use that much data
[Thunderbolt General] xXJay_RXx:
Anyone using over 20GBs is the reason why unlimited data plans have gone out the window -__-
[Thunderbolt General] kr0n1c:
Damn, I've used 8GB/month the last 2 months thanks to Google Music and I was worried I'd get throttled from Verizon. On my OG droid going over 1.5GB was really rare for me, but with 4g its easy as hell.
[Thunderbolt General] bogatyr:
If that was the case then they wouldn't have offered the 30/mo unlimited tethering for people who had the unlimited data plan. They would have tried to make us pay per GB.
[Thunderbolt General] voxigenboy:
still no 4G here in San Diego(north county), but when i was on my Incredible 2 i was averaging about 15GB/month
[Thunderbolt General] Makaveli1490:
They said I used 2 GB

Idk about that
[Thunderbolt General] wichol98:
8gb
[Thunderbolt General] what25:
If that's the case then why are they advertising about using netflix, streaming radio, uploading videos and all the other media intensive stuff?
[Thunderbolt General] Kitten Mittens:
I am usually around 500MB to 4GB a month depending on how much heavy using or travelling/tethering I do. My data usage definitely jumped up significantly the month I upgraded, but it has since come down to a steady ~1-2GB a month average.

I must say I was really worried when I found out that Verizon was planning on introducing tiered data and getting rid of unlimited data plans, and it's what ultimately made me decide to upgrade from the Incredible to the Thunderbolt hoping to be grandfathered for as long as possible, but I'm actually using a lot less data then I thought I would be. Considering what the future holds for the web and media consumption though, I'm definitely glad I'm on unlimited.

Even if you aren't downloading tons of large files all the time, with so many popular streaming services out there like Netflix/Amazon VOD, Hulu, Pandora, and Google Music etc., even casual users might find themselves using a lot of data. Also, if and when Google Voice finally goes VoIP on Android, which I'm awaiting eagerly, it will be nice to be able to make tons of phone calls for free, without having to worry about a data cap (although I'm sure they'll optimize it to use as little data as possible since not everyone has unlimited).
[Thunderbolt General] xXJay_RXx:
Bro that's all I do at work. I work graveyard shift so I listen to Pandora while I work n watch Netflix while on break. Now I don't upload videos but I'm a huge Pandora/Slacker fan n that's all I ever listen to on my phone and the most I ever reached was about 17GBs. And I also download ROMs onto my SD card over 4G
[Thunderbolt General] FcoT:
I did my best to use WiFi at home, didn't use it as a hot spot, and used Titanium bkup every time I flashed a new ROM, even then I went over 4 gigs.
[Thunderbolt General] dialntone:
4G LTE!

Try 101 GB of DATA!

8-)

USENET BABY!
[Thunderbolt General] xXJay_RXx:
Lol no way! I want proof of this haha
[Thunderbolt General] nrfitchett4:
and you will probably be at the top of the throttle list. Congrats!
[Thunderbolt General] thesilverhawk:
I think I'm at about 100 so far this month lol
[Thunderbolt General] bogatyr:
Watching HD video on Netflix and HBOGO as our only video source (no cable), 60GB/mo. Hit up to 80GB one month.
[Thunderbolt General] herooftimeloz:
Nothing crazy from me...6-7 gb per month. On a slightly related note, does anyone have an updated version of myvzw that's been modded for TB?
[Thunderbolt General] GMac0051:
Just picked up my Thunderbolt this month... I'm excited to post my usage real soon :)
[XPERIA X8 Themes and Apps] mlop:
Hi...i had the old version of gangstar 2 which did not fit the screen...but i was realy smoth with the stck firmware 2.1.1...but now i have the 2.3.3 rom of ratch and i tried to play the new hvga version on it but it stucks on the menu and closes automaticly and sometimes the phone reboots...i loveee this game but it doesn't work...did anyone have managed to play the hvga version on his x8?
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] subbuaxel:
Hi Friends,

I wanted to revert to stock 2.2 but im not getting repair option in SEUS.

It says my phone is already updated but no repair option.

Pls help
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MrKingLouie:
You need to use flashtool to go back to stock firmware.
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] subbuaxel:
how do i do it and from where do i get the firmware for india region?

plz help
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ve6ay:
If you look in the FlashTool thread, it'll show you links to the basic stock firmwares, both the Global Generic (which most people use), as well as a couple links to other branded ones.
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CMoney87:
Thats gonna be difficult seeing as how there is no stock 2.2 for X10.

Sent From My *Super Fly X10*

If I (or anyone for that matter!) help you, dont be afraid to press THANKS!
[Galaxy S I9000 General] manrock111:
i am new in here but already love this place..

so after long period i switched to android from symbian and i have some question.

please be my mate at yahoo manrock111 at yahoo dot com, i need some help and info regarding android world.

feel free to ask me any questioon regading symbian. So if u want to want to ask any info regards flash, hack n series or anything feel free to ask me...(but i know who cares nokia here :p)

by the way i just bought galaxy sl i9003
[Galaxy S I9000 General] drreality:
hi m8,

welcome to the world of android u will never regret passing the symbian :D

the os is completely different from the latter and u will enjoy learning it as i can c that ur not a simple user of ur old sym os , so i expect u to be the same woth android.

i have samsung i9000, not into programing and coding rather than flashing and tuning the device to suit me :D

ill be more than happy to help u, u can pm me ur question and ill do my best to help u
[Galaxy S I9000 General] buntoo:
Congrats for you new toy :)

You're gonna love it soon :p

Need any help? Use the search button! Everything is here. If it ain't, you may start a new topic ;)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] manrock111:
thanks for replies guys i appreciated it....
[Galaxy S II General] VJKotts:
I've tried syncr, I've tried double twist and I've tried dragging and dropping but in all cases, the phone is not recognizing the artist names of many songs. It labels them as unknown. This is driving me nuts.

When I take the SD card out and place it in my droid X, all the songs that went previously unrecognized are now recognized.

Is anyone else experiencing this?
[Galaxy S II General] jonathanacbrett:
I am, i thought it was just my music collection. I've been doing everything to try and fix it with no luck :(
[Galaxy S II General] chargen2:
Are they m4a files? There is another thread where people have found that m4a files aren't working properly. They play just fine, but the artist and some other info isn't recognized properly for some reason.

Haven't seen a fix yet, but it sure is annoying!
[Galaxy S II General] Beckim:
Just move allo music folder or/and files to the main Music folder. it doesnt work if you have music files in you own SD card or another map. It has to be in Phone memory.
[Galaxy S II General] Beckim:
You have to move your multimedia files to phon memory and it will work fine. It doesent work if your multimediafile´s are in extern sd card.
[Galaxy S II General] evilskanker:
Not sure if that is right. I've tried it on the phone's 16gb memory, and on my external microSD card - neither works. When I add them to Kies on my desktop they are also missing the some of the info in the fields shown in the 'library'. It's all very confusing - really hope it can get sorted out soon as it's the one thing that's annoying the hell out of me.
[Galaxy S II General] chargen2:
Didn't seem to make any difference. To be clear, I didn't have a 'Music' folder in the root of the internal phone memory, so I created one and put my music in sub-directories. Is that what you meant?
[Galaxy S II General] Zaphod_b_1:
Do you use MP3 files? Then this could be an issue with the ID3 Tag. You can solve it in two ways:

1) only using ID3 V1 Tags

2) using ID3 V2.3 Tags with ISO-8859-1 Charakter Set. Android seems to have problems with UTF-8/16 and ID3 V2.4

Cheers

Zap
[Galaxy S II General] evilskanker:
It's my m4a files that I think I (and others) have the problem with.

Is there any program that you know of to change the tags of m4a files as a batch? Really don't want to have to do it individually!
[Galaxy S II General] Zaphod_b_1:
I use usually a Prog called "MP3Tag". Unfortunately I do not know actually if a) it is available in English language (I'm German)

b) it also works with m4a files.

Usage is quiet simple: Just open your Music folder on your PC with the program, edit the settings to fit with what I've written above, apply the settings, select all files, copy and paste the tags, save the files - finished.

Cheers

Zap

Edit: I've checked it: The Prog is available in English and it supports m4a. Just look at the website: www.mp3tag.de