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[Galaxy S II General] :
BakedBread - did you even read what people are writing here?

When you make a data request, it will immediately try to switch over to "H". However, the majority of the time, once it switches to "H", it immediately flicks back to 3G, then immediately flicks back to H, over and over and over.

Its as if once it switches over the HSDPA, it realises it isn't functioning so it switches straight back to 3G. However, once its back on 3G, it doesn't even try load it then. It just keeps on trying to switch back to H, which doesn't function at all.

On the odd occasion, when it switches to H it will actually work. Most of the time it doesn't. So we essentially have phones without data.

I've complained to my carrier here (Optus) to no avail. They told me to turn my phone on and off every morning to ensure "the connection remains fresh". Yeah right.
[Galaxy S II General] djmozy:
Issue with 3G

Am on Optus in Sydney and have the same problem that if can't pickup H or H+ and in an area where can only pick up 3G then I can't download anything. Think we should all email Samsung to tell them about the problem so that they realise it is a general worldwide problem and not just a network issue. Go to samsung.com and click on the Contact Us link at the bottom to send them an email. Hopefully if enough people email them then they will look at fixing the issue if it is software related.
[Galaxy S II General] ryepie:
Isn't this behaviour a manifestation of the fast dormancy implementation that the sgsII supports? Where the phone switches to 3G as soon as it doesn't need a data connection.

This happens on my phone too. When I do something that uses data on my phone it switches to H and sometimes switches back and forth between H & 3G quite rapidly, but I've never had it 'stuck' on 3G during this switching and data seems to get to my phone ok.

Type *#*#9900#*#* into your phone and select the disable fast dormancy option, and see if that helps you stay on H for longer if you really need it to. The downside will be that your battery life will be impacted as it will cause the handset to keep an active connection for longer once you've stopped using data.

This was all designed to improve battery life on phones, by switching to an idle state whenever possible. The tradeoff is that it can take a noticeable amount of time for the first data packets to reach the phone when it comes out of the 3G state.

There is also an onus on the network provider to implement fast dormancy (it's full title is 'network controlled fast dormancy') 'properly' and that's why some people's problems are more exaggerated than others.

Cheers.
[Galaxy S II General] Clivectmob:
mansonitefirefox, first of all, well done you for making the effort and coming up with a plausible and logical explaination as to whats going on. Hoiwever, I have noticed that it's not just the SGS2 that has this issue, I have had an LG o2x, too recently, and I first noticed this behaviour on that. It is a bit of a grey area as to weather the LG supports HSPA+ however looking on the net, but the general consensus is that it does. Although I never actually saw the H+ symbol on the LG, I have on the SGS2, only once and only a couple of days ago. I have read somewhere that 3 UK (my carrier) is rolling out H+ coverage at the moment.

So, it could be that these early implementations of H+ are not very well designed just yet. Not just by Samsung either. Lets hope it improves eh? Interesting thread btw :)
[Galaxy S II General] djmozy:
Thanks - working now

Excellent mansonitefirefox, this fixes the problem. Am on Optus in Sydney CBD and turning off HSPA+ change speed from 5.5mbps to 5mbps which is still a great speed. Stays on 3G now permanently. Didn't realise that 3G was so fast. Thought it was more like 500kbps.
[Galaxy S II General] ADSrox0r:
Excellent fix, I'm on Orange UK and switching to mode 5 has stopped the delay between switching from 3G to H when starting a data connection. It rides along happily on 3G now with barely any noticeable loss of speed.
[Galaxy S II General] qasdfdsaq:
I don't know what this does but you are still using HSDPA + HSUPA (i.e. HSPA) in "3G only" mode. You haven't switched off HSDPA at all, even if the phone is lying and saying it has.

It isn't. 3G (without HSDPA) is 384kbits download, maximum. Anything above this is HSDPA. Upload is 128kbps max, anything more is HSUPA.

Neither of you have actually switched off HSPA even if the phone says you have. It might be using it in a more efficient/reliable mode, but it's still using full HSDPA+HSUPA.
[Galaxy S II General] daveok:
Isn't HSDPA just a number of 3G connections running in parallel? If you are getting more than 3G speeds even when both codes are applied then that doesn't make sense.

Good investigation work though thanks.

Don't have any data problems at all on Vodafone UK but I am still gonna mess around with this in the hope of saving some battery.
[Galaxy S II General] bazofia:
I'm also on 3 UK and I've been all around London and never seen the H+ icon though I have HSDPA/HSUPA enabled. I wonder if this is a restriction from the carrier or I just haven't hit any spot with HSPA.
[Galaxy S II General] JLowe:
Turned off 'H' now the battery consumption is much better.

Tried to switch back to 'H' but have only the icon with '3G'...
[Galaxy S II General] bentez2003:
This problem is driving me nuts. My data connection is all but useless!!! I've tried flashing a ton of different basebands, from KE1 upto KE7, didn't work. Ive had fast dormancy on and off. Ive tried *#301279# on every setting, no luck. Ive done the build.prop fix - did'nt fix!

I did not have these stalling issues where it would flick from 3G to H when I got the phone so its probably something ive installed or changed.

I'm running Lite'ning 1.3, maybe a hard reset and a flash to stock will solve this stupid problem but I loath to do it.

what else should I try?? could it be a faulty handset?
[Galaxy S II General] Dominikm:
3G - phone is connected to UMTS/HSPA/HSPA+ network and is in idle mode

H/H+ - phone is connected to UMTS/HSPA/HSPA+ network and is in active mode

Sometimes, on older part network, also could be in active mode with 3G icon.

So if u want to check it, run some network usage (web, email, etc), if 3G icon goes to H is better, if to H+ is best
[Galaxy S II General] sackynuts:
Guys, I need help. My phone doesn't do anything when entering service commands like these above. I'm using stock dialer and Villain rom <- is that the problem?
[Galaxy S II General] qasdfdsaq:
In some ways, yes. HSPA uses several spreading codes (5-15) but also more advanced modulation on each code.

On Voda UK as well, their 3G seems to drain my battery a lot faster than it should - getting about 7 days standby on GRPS/EDGE and only 3 on 3G.

Just curious, do you see any H+ coverage at the moment? Voda used to have H+ throughout my city but seem to have switched it off, as I've had zilch for a month...

HSPA != HSPA+

3's HSPA+ coverage is currently just about nil, though they are rolling it out. Voda had extensive HSPA+ but seem to be turning it off (or maybe it's just me). Other networks have just about no HSPA+.

All networks have just about nationwide HSPA (H) now especially 3, HSPA+ (H+) barely exists outside of Vodafone (though it's ironically quite extensive in Germany where they seem to use it less...)
[Galaxy S II General] ithehappy:
Can someone post his/her device's screenshot connected to 3G? I just wanna see the icon 3G in the status bar.

Regards.
[Galaxy S II General] RogerPodacter:
did anyone actually explain why other phones do not do this switching stuff? the nexus one for example stays on HSDPA all the time, idle or active, no matter what. even in the service menu it's clearly camped on 3g, when data is transmitted or when idle and not transmitting.

so why is the new samsung phone different? is it directly due to addition of fast dormancy? cause i do not think it would be normal, or desired, to constantly switch back and forth. i like my phone just fine staying on HSDPA all the time, no matter what.
[Galaxy S II General] qasdfdsaq:
This behaviour is not new, or specific to the SGS2. Other phones do do this, in fact pretty much all phones do. I think it's all down to the precise tuning of performance verses energy efficiency that each manufacturer uses, as well as exactly how they choose to display each mode, and finally there is some involvement of signal level, roaming preferences, CQI, etc. It depends, to some extent on what channel, PSC, and/or cell the device has decided to lock onto at any given time.

The nexus one does not stay on HSDPA all the time, but depending on the network, location and conditions, it may stay on HSDPA (or show the H logo) most of the time. The SGS2 does exactly the same thing, and will display "H" in some places under some conditions and "3G" in others both while active and idle. My guess is it just uses different criteria to choose which to stay on under which conditions.

In my experience this "switching" is purely cosmetic and has no impact on performance. The phone still has to initiate the radio link to transcieve data and this takes the same amount of time whether it says '3G' or 'H' in the status bar before it does so. Of course, YMMV with local conditions, network, tuning, etc. But I don't see any problem with how the SGS2 behaves, in my view it's the same as any other UMTS/HSPA device and perfectly normal.

What I do know though is there is a cosmetic bug/fault on the SGS2 where it'll sometimes display "3G" even when it is on "H" and using HSPA, for example as mentioned earlier after switching off HSPA in the service mode menus.
[Galaxy S II General] djmozy:
All working well

Hey there

Although turning off HSPA on my phone made the internet work most of the time, there were still times when it would stop working when changing areas and would have to turn off data and then turn it back on to get working.

The good news is that installed the latest firmware XWKF3 last night and since then phone has been working perfectly with HSPA+ on. Looks like they fixed the problem in the latest firmware.

Harel
[Galaxy S II General] djmozy:
Wow

Just did a speed test and when I got 13mbps download on Optus in Sydney CBD vs 5mbps a month ago. Did it two or 3 times to make sure.
[Galaxy S II General] PhaseShiftDown:
This worked perfectly for me!! I'm on vodafone Australia as well and my phone always lags when I try to use 3G for the net and now it is working much faster.

Does doing this decrease battery life in anyway?
[Galaxy S II General] djmozy:
Spoke to soon - still have problems even on 3g only and have to turn data off and on to get it working again.
[Galaxy S II General] hamooda2000:
Hey guys, hope someone can help out here... On top of this flickiring problem between 3G, H and H+, I am not getting push notifications when I get a new email or a whatsapp msg? I have to unlock the phone go into the app or do any kind of browsing and then it notifies me that I have a msg or an email. Long story short, i am loosing the connection with the data part and I have to wake it up to get it to work again.

Even after keeping 3G only open and not flicking between the other H & H+ I loose the connection and don't get push notifications.

Anyone has the same issue or a solution to this problem.

Thanks,
[Galaxy S II General] richy_droid_tab:
Yes i get same problem. I have galaxy tab and sgs2, both only use H for internet n cannot use 3G. So every push notification is delayed, thats why i hate when i got delayed message from whatsapp n ebuddy because of my network in sgs2 n galaxy tab switch to 3G and disconnected all apps that using network.

I would like to have "always connected" rather than saving battery on 3G and delay all my messages in whatsapp, ebuddy n etc.

Sgs2 is super smartphone but why it cant do like blackberry who always stay connected to the network and get realtime messages.
[Galaxy S II General] juanmaper:
Is it possible to enforce my S2 to use only H+ at all times? 3G is not working in my city, and hate to wait the phone to change from 3G to H+. And when the phone is sleep I have no conection to internet, because it use H+ only when you unlocked it.

Life battery is no problem for me, nor the data bandwidth because I'm using a plan with no restrictions.

When I tried to use the service code *#301279# it doesnt do anything, so I cant use the fix posted.
[Folio 100 General] NIMMVier:
hi guys

on every system info app that i tried, it shows me only 375 mb ram on foliomod 1.4.

i have tested it on cm7 where it shows the same. on folio stockrom it shows me 445 mb ram.

do i have a defective folio?

or is this normal?
[Folio 100 General] atiti:
I have the same. "free" and "cat /proc/meminfo" shows 383572KB for "MemTotal" with FolioTNT.

Maybe the rest is reserved for something else?
[Folio 100 General] Topogigi:
Yes, in Foliomod some memory is reserved for file system performance tuning
[Folio 100 General] xinstein:
Mine is reported 751MB by foliomod1.4 and stockrom

And 483MB by CM7

really, really strange

I've asked before, but got no reply……
[Folio 100 General] Topogigi:
currently CM7 cannot see more than 512 mb. It is a known issue on various tablets.
[Folio 100 General] atiti:
Does that mean there are folios with more than 512mb? :D
[Folio 100 General] Topogigi:
Yes, I heard that some Folios come with 1GB of RAM
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jonalexgalaxy:
I flashed debusROM (and then DamienGTO2.2.1 kernel), which i am blown away by. I keep hearing good things about Honey ROM, but i am so happy with debusROM that i'm not very motivated to flash something different just yet.

However my curiosity prevails.

Anyone had experience with both?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jonalexgalaxy:
no one? really?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] simone201:
Well, just wait tomorrow cuz i release 3.5 JVH! ;)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jonalexgalaxy:
cool.. will probably flash Simple Honey tomorrow then... I'm operating JVB - will you post a way of upgrading to JVH?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] simone201:
3.5 will be based on JVH as well! Just flash directly my rom
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tt0204:
Your ROM is good but it still drains a lot of battery....(GB bug?)

Will it be improved(even more)?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jonalexgalaxy:
no what i'm saying is that i am running a JVB ROM.. i have read that i cannot flash a JVH ROM straight on top of a JVB ROM - will you please post a method of upgrading my SGS from JVB to JVH?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jonalexgalaxy:
did you release it? I cant find it...
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] simone201:
Yes i have released 3.5

Sent from my SGS with Simply 3.5 Revolution ROM
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] job:
I tried almost all of them and the criskelo v56 (jvh base) is the best. Smooth phone and fast internet browsing. No problems thus far.
[LG Optimus 2x] frapaa:
Hi all,

Forgive me for my ignorance, but I am quite new in this field.. So here's a question that might be somewhat silly, or not, I don't know.

Is it possible to install multiple kernels and/or ROMs on different partitions and choose which one to use during startup?

Thanks,

Frank
[LG Optimus 2x] Rusty!:
Not that I am aware of, no. It's possible to run a few things off the SD card though (Ubuntu, Windows etc).
[LG Optimus 2x] frapaa:
Hm, do you mean boot into Android and launch Ubuntu from there?
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] liran42:
Desire HD after the official 2.3.3 update.

official stock rom, no root. auto sync is on. facebook is sync once a day.

I am using Facebook for HTC sense and it worked fine until the update.

now when my friends change their profile picture it willl not update my people app, not even after manual sync.

when i look at the facebook profile of a contact (from people app, select one contact and then press on "facebook profile") it shows my the updated profile picture,

but when i go back to the people app it is still showing the old profile picture.

1. i tried to unlink contact, sync and then link them again. no change.

2. i tried to remove facebook for HTC sense and then add it again, the profile pictures were updated but only once. (any change since then is not updated).

3. i did factory reset then put everything back. the profile pictures were updated but since then any change to profile picture is not updated again.

please help.
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] liran42:
no one knows??

please help.
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CodeNameUnknown1:
i have the same problem, im waiting for a solution too!
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MasterGP1:
the same problem here after update my HTC :(
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jackalac:
No solution yet? :(
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] anheuer:
http://www.engadget.com/2011/02/22/google-disables-contact-sync-in-facebook-for-android-only-nexus/

Maybe the same issue?
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jackalac:
Only nexus S i think..
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] anheuer:
Maybe,... maybe not..
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] liran42:
This is not the same issue because the article is about Facebook app from the market and not about Facebook for HTC sense.

The people app still use contact information from Facebook for HTC sense (like birthdays, phone number...) and only the profile picture is not updating.

If it was the same issue then the profile picture and all the contact information would not appear in people app when the account was added.
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] diodorus:
I had exactly the same issue when I got the OTA update for my old HTC Hero from (if I remember correctly) 1.5 to 1.6. I found that issue EXTREMELY annoying.

I contacted HTC many times on that, they never solved the issue. (I then lost my Hero and got an HTC DESIRE HD. I haven't upgraded to 2.3 yet, and if that issue is confirmed I'd rather not do it!).

PS: something I tried - but didnt work for me: go to your facebook profile (**from a PC**) and remove the HTC sense app, and then let the phone re-request/install that
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jackalac:
The problem is the account of facebook htc sense, becuase if i syncronize the account of classic facebook that create the app, the pics are updatated.

If you use , both the accounts, facebook htc sense syancronized every day for example and facebook classic disabled, the contacts have 2 facebook profiles in details, but the main pic will be from facebook htc sense (not upgrated).

So, sense 2.1 bug?
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] seelinkit:
sir, have you tried using the app called "syncmypix"? its in the market =)
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] crumble6:
I too have this problem. I'm not using the stock rom but I have tried Android Revolution HD and LeeDroid and the problem exists for me on both.
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jackalac:
facebook classic app update the photos, but quality is very bad

facebook for htc sense, not working.

I think that it's a bug.
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Scottymeuk:
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.nloko.android.syncmypix&feature=search_result
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] liran42:
I've contacted HTC about that issue and their replay was:

"Thank you for contacting HTC

there could be a conflict between 3rd party applications that you downloaded.

Would you please try to remove any 3rd party application and remove the facebook application and reinstall it again."

htc are useless. they can't help.
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jackalac:
useless as usual :D, btw its a bug imho, no conflit with 3d party.
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CodeNameUnknown1:
Actually, I had this issue while i was on 2.2

and at the beginning of the update to 2.3, pictures still didnt update, but now, for some reason, it works fine! ...
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jaaystott:
It's a common issue with HTC Sense to suddenly stop updating things, then just as suddenly start updating things again. Contacting HTC is no good, because they are not prepared to admit that the Desire HD's software has he occasional glitch.
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] liran42:
htc suggested to boot up in safe mode (that disable all 3rd party applications) and then check if problem still exists.

sync facebook for htc sense and check if pictures updated.

(safe mode: restart the device -> press vol. down when htc logo appears utill phone boot up)

it did not helped me but might help you.
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sromer:
It's only for the Nexus, like the story itself says.

Sometime it just takes a while for them to update
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jackalac:
These are the tests I did:

1-Deleted the account on facebook and facebook for htc.

2-Deleted data and cache facebook and facebook for htc in Application Management.

3-Deleted the cache directory and archive directory for the contacts..

4-Sync gmail accounts for my contacts.

5-Created Facebook for htc account, sync and connected to the contacts facebook.

6 - I do not have synchronized contacts on Facebook classic.

And the problem still persists.
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] liran42:
jackalac, try safe mode and see if it still exists.

(safe mode: restart the device -> press vol. down when htc logo appears utill phone boot up, safe mode watermark will be displayed on screen)
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] orymd:
Uff... +1 on the list! :D

It's annoyingthis bug :(

I'm so crazy :(
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] abhishekagrawal:
Not working for me too. A workaround for it is to remove the facebook for htc sense account from settings and then add it again and let it Sync but its very annoying to do again and again!
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] klyzon:
thought i was the only one with this issue lol. Its getting quite irritating i must say. Am on Revohd rom, only solution i found was to delete/enable the fb for htc sense account over and over again.. .grrrr
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] orymd:
Can Any developer "open" the fb htc sense .apk and official facebook .apk for "copying" the part of picture's profile management? Or try to view the facebook for htc sense from sense 3.0?
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pisis:
Same problem here too...! :(

Can anyone guess what might be the solution...???

Is it only us with the problem...???
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ASV25:
Resolution:

1) Login to your Facebook profile from a PC.

2) Go to Account Settings

3) Account Security

4) Untick "Secure Browsing"

5) Save

6) Re-sync your facebook profile from your device
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] atifhasan86:
not resolved

sorry, tried that but no help :(:mad:
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] klyzon:
so i suppose its only the minority having this issue? must've been something i did wrong somewhere :(
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] georgito:
helped for me

..had a same issue..helped just delete HTC facebook account,dont clear cache ,just deleted it and login in again ..sync after and my contacts are actual...
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jackalac:
The problem is that the picture showed while u make a call for the contact linked to facebook isnt updated, but the picture in the contact information -> Events and updates is ok. (so we have 2 versions of these pics)