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[Galaxy S II General] rwj5279955:
Have you tried forcing 1900 or 850 to see if that helps? I'm near Scranton, Wilkes-Barre, Hazleton in Pa, and 1900 does have a much faster ping and more bars, but 850 is generally faster and more reliable. In my particular case of course.
[Galaxy S II General] BarryH_GEG:
As further support of data being dormant on purpose, the Music Hub just popped up a dialog when I launched it that said "Activate data? Charges may apply." I get to NYC pretty frequently, you guys are really making me look forward to it. ;)
[Galaxy S II General] kreoXDA:
I have not yet. I admit I panicked and bounced the phone :) Thought the phone just self destructed inside or something - never ever have I had a problem like this on AT&T in NYC in my 15 years with AT&T.

I can vouch this also never happened with my Captivate that I got on its release day.

Next time this happens I will try forcing bands.
[Galaxy S II General] ph00ny:
i've had a few instances of network connectivity issues with my captivate where i couldn't connect. That could have been from the custom rom. Now my buddy swears that he gets barely any network connection at his apartment

Anyways i'm getting much better network performance now. Even better than before
[Galaxy S II General] bclark:
I spent the majority of the day today in NYC and definitely experienced this, I actually tore through my battery completely bc of the lack of consistency with data connection. I even gave up checking xda.

I cannot wait till we have different modems to test!
[Galaxy S II General] suilobo:
Still waiting for my SGS2, but I am using an iPhone 4 in NYC and I think AT&T was having general network issues this morning. Wasn't able to receives this morning either on my iPhone.
[Galaxy S II General] kreoXDA:
I did not have VOICE, I long forgotten about getting data in my office building - that is not SGS2 fault. But voice was always reliable for me on other AT&T phones in this building.
[Galaxy S II General] kreoXDA:
Why does that picture say you are 1250 miles from their NYC server?
[Galaxy S II General] FishTaco:
I think the speedtest app uses both GPS data and IP address for location. If the GPS is off it only has the IP address and I believe that on a cell phone the IP address is not based on physical location of phone. Probably a random address from AT&T's pool of IP addresses (in this case somewhere in the middle of the U.S.). I assume a whois lookup of IP address would provide "location" of that address. He probably overrode Speedtests recommended server based on IP and manually changed it to a NYC server.
[Galaxy S II General] ph00ny:
Remember how i said i kept getting connected to the kansas servers as the closest server, i'm guessing it's related to that. I had the GPS on when i was running the new test and nyc servers showed up as <2km

This also happened on my first day for a few hours when i first put my sim card in and also happened when i switched over to media net. Not sure if that was due to at&t
[Galaxy S II General] ph00ny:
So my data service issue has returned. Now the odd thing about these data service issues, if you go to the closest server in speedtest, it's displaying list of states that are several states away as the closest
[Galaxy S II General] kreoXDA:
are you using a SIM aquired in some other state? Does AT&T still use those "home areas" and "roaming areas"? I am way behind on that :)
[Galaxy S II General] ph00ny:
They do use home areas and it's not displaying the information of my actual home area (metro dc area, currently in nyc). Instead it's displaying midwest,

Currently displaying Wichita, KS as the closest server at 45.89 km
[Galaxy S II General] ph00ny:
haha i think i figured out why it's showing odd location info. It seems to rely on location service which is disabled on mine. It's turned on and pointing to ny servers now.
[Galaxy S II General] pplcallmeGOD:
Just got my phone today and Im getting about the same signal strength as my old 3GS, stronger in some areas in fact. What I found most interesting is that AT&T seems to have HSUPA running in my area, but not HSDPA. Ran a speedtest and I got 128 kB/s both up and download.
[Galaxy S II General] kreoXDA:
I bet Samsung purposely defaults the location to Wichita, KS so the user can enable the location services with a satisfactory exhale "you are not in Kansas anymore, Galaxiesstwo"
[Galaxy S II General] mchimney:
I just got my SGSII today, i have full service but data doesn't seem to function very well. It says i have H+ and full bars, but trying to load google or the market takes > 5 minutes.

Any tips? Text messaging seems to work fine, so do phone calls
[Galaxy S II General] kreoXDA:
what carrier are you on? what sim card? what plan?
[Galaxy S II General] mchimney:
I'm on AT&T, located in New York. I have the regular 4g smart phone plane (just came from atrix) and i'm using the same sim card that i had in my iphone 4
[Galaxy S II General] uskr:
I am on ATT as well and was thinking the data speeds were kinda meh, although I had H+ icon constantly up.

I added these lines to my /system/build.prop , it seamed to greatly improve my speeds:

ro.ril.enable.dtm=1

ro.ril.gprsclass=12

ro.ril.enable.3g.prefix=1

ro.ril.hsdpa.category=28

ro.ril.hsupa.category=9

ro.ril.hsxpa=3

Your mileage may vary. I would recommend you to play with ro.ril.hsdpa.category and ro.ril.hsupa.category values. Both are set to the maximun value possible as it is. In theory the "correct" values to use for ATT 4g on this phone would be hsdpa.category=20 (21mbps) and hsupa.category=6 (5mbps), but I had a significant performance gain by using the values I am using (28 / 9).

Give it a try and see if anything changes.
[Galaxy S II General] kreoXDA:
hmm very weird. did you try the speedtest app? try a hard reset (if you can afford losing whatever config changes you made to the phone so far).
[Galaxy S II General] rwj5279955:
I'd be willing to bet the backhaul upgrades AT&T is doing is the main culprit behind varied data speeds. But ping times look similar regardless of upload/download speeds.

About a month ago both my Captivate and my girlfriends Inspire 4G both got knocked down to EDGE, the Captivate going between EDGE and no signal. I called AT&T and they said there was no outages and opened a ticket on the matter. AT&T forums for my area North East Pennsylvania, Pocono region was lit up with similar complaints. A few days later a tech called and explained they were doing software upgrades; backhaul, and things are more normal now.

New York City is renowned for having lousy AT&T service via high traffic and congested network. Tall buildings and changing man made terrain don't seem to help. San Fransisco is another notorious area for lousy AT&T service. I do know to make aware your customer service department as when they receive numerous complaints they dispatch a tech, not sure how many they have but it's not many, who reposition repeaters of rooftops and such and decide where new repeaters and towers go up.

Another problem is the lack of modems for the device in the U.S., with the Galaxy S series we had a cornucopia of modems to flash via recovery with many many people finding ideal modems for their area. Usually I-9000 modems strangely enough. I think as time goes on the people who will help us most in the U.S. is Samsung themselves and U.K. developers.

And stay on top of AT&T if you have signal/data issues. What good is the coolest phone thus far of 2011 if you can't get a reliable 3G network.
[Galaxy S II General] mchimney:
Thanks for the tip, i've never tried to edit the build.prop. However, i've done rooting and flashing etc.. Give me some time to figure out how to add those values and i'll post when i can with results
[Galaxy S II General] uskr:
There are many ways to do that.

Safest would be to:

1. adb pull /system/build.prop

2. make a backup copy of it

3. edit with your preferred editor and add those lines to the end of the file

4. adb shell (then su to root)

5. mount the /system partition as read/write

6. quit adb shell

7. adb push build.prop /system/build.prop

8. reboot your phone

Or the easiest way, if you have Root Explorer:

1. adb pull /system/build.prop (this will be your backup copy of the file)

2. Open Root Explorer on your phone

3. open /system folder and click on "mount r/w" option

4. open the build.prop file on Root Explorer (you can edit the file right there)

5. Add those lines at the end of the file

6. Save and quit Root Explorer

7. reboot your device.
[Galaxy S II General] rwj5279955:
And after a successful reboot, can the .bak file be deleted?

I just did this, but my network never speeds up till around 10 or 11 pm

edit: I'm back over 3mbps down. weird Thanks though if this is the reason.
[Galaxy S II General] uskr:
As long as you keep a copy of the original file somewhere, I think the .bak is created by Root Explorer. Yes you can delete the .bak.
[Galaxy S II General] mchimney:
Running 10 speed test trials, then gonna follow your instructions =)
[Galaxy S II General] ph00ny:
I'm back over 3 mbps without doing anything
[Galaxy S II General] BarryH_GEG:
Be cautious if you guys roam on other networks, especially internationally. I used to mod the hell out of my phones and then had all sorts of issues registering on foreign networks. That's one of the things I like about the SGS2, carrier unmolested radio settings that (in theory) should work everywhere. If any of you New Yorker's travel to other cities, post what type of voice and data connections your getting compared to home.
[Galaxy S II General] Raspster:
Couple of things to consider. First off, Any smartphone in NYC on a busy day can and will sometimes drop to extremly poor data speeds and service. Mainly due to the amount of people on the at&t network in the same area sharing the same towers. This has been a known issue for years for GSM networks and ever since the iPhone came into the picture, at&t's network has been hammered! As for the switch signals, not sure about going to "G" but the switch from 3g to H+ is normal. The phone will switch to H+ when it starts to use data and back to 3g when it's not. Many phones do this and it's normal.
[Galaxy S II General] FishTaco:
They know who you are.
[Galaxy S II General] ph00ny:
KreoXDA,

It looks like the data service seems much more consistent since last week? Any improvements on your end?
[Galaxy S II General] !2020!:
I remember reading your post for this. You're in the Northern Virginia area right? So am I (Leesburg) and I've been experiencing the data stall/disconnect of the OP. Gotta toggle flight mode or reboot and it's driving me nuts. Can you post your APN settings? Are you on the 4G plan?

Thanks!
[Galaxy S II General] kreoXDA:
I kind of adjusted to poor performance, and just switch off data on the phone whenever I am near a computer (basically at least 10 hours a day at work). If I keep data on, I still get those connection hang ups that some people claim disabling "Fast Dormancy" would fix. It does not fix it for me though.

I am waiting for the new modem software, hopefully it makes the phone better.
[Galaxy S II General] BarryH_GEG:
I've been traveling with my phone and so far in the U.S. it's been to:

Seattle

Portland

Salt Lake

LA

Las Vegas

Dallas

Atlanta

Houston

Lafayette, LA

The behavior of my data connection's been pretty consistent across all of them and in Lafayette it did have to drop to 2G a couple of times. Basically it idles at 3G, picks up 4G when needed, then drops back to idle. It also didn't seem to have any issues bouncing between 2G and 3G although GRPS data is painful. I'm stock and any radio settings were read from the SIM by the phone. My SIM's new if that makes any difference. I did notice more battery drain when on 2G but nothing dramatic.
[Galaxy S II General] c19932:
i am on ATT as well and I have the same issue.

What CSC is everyone using? I am currently using KOR and sometimes it drops to EDGE. please tell me what CSC you are on.
[Galaxy S II General] kirdroid:
Hey I'm in seattle, how was your speeds here? I barely get more than 2mbps download averaging arnd 1 mbps.

As far as I know att is not having hspa+ coverage in seattle and just want to know what speeds others are getting around seattle?
[Captivate General] RonH54:
I have a Linksys WRE54G WiFi extender that I use for Wifi signals to back of my Home. My Laptop gets great Wifi signals but my Captivate doesn't seem to "pickup" any Strength from this Extender and thus I have LOW Wifi on my phone when I am in my back rooms. Should my phone be able to use this Extender? If so are there settings I need to change on the phone?

Thanks
[Captivate General] RonH54:
Well it seems that the phone and Range Extenders don't play well but I did find a work around. With the App WiFi Finder it shows 2 different Wifi sources in my Home My Router and then the Extender is listed separately. I can Manually select and connect to the Extender this way and get improved signal.
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Danny27404:
ok done the home back back blah blah no joy

wolfbreak's CM 6.1.3 v006 and baseband 54 and stock kernel

i need to get into it seen as the fix for bluetooth is in there many thanks.
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] denenatse:
you mean xrecovery? try reinstalling xrecovery, http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=859571

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[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Danny27404:
No there is a system menu i just can't get into it.
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] compumasta:
To my knowledge that back home combination only worked with 1.6
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CMoney87:
BT works just fine in WB's ROM. What exactly is your problem?

Sent From My *Super Fly X10*

If I (or anyone for that matter!) help you, dont be afraid to press THANKS!
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Danny27404:
Its to quiet I read elsewhere on a Google forum that there is a option to increase earpeice volume not media its a secondary volume control.
[Acer Iconia A500] banksia:
... is a big waste of money.

1) No USB port(s)

2) No HDMI port

3) No power built-in (have to use the adapter that came with tablet. Aargh!!)

4) No SD card slot

5) No micro-SD card slot

Expensive piece of plastic for the price.

But, it does offer a remote control, and a headphone jack!!!

(ASUS messed up by not including a full-USB on the TRANSFORMER, but made it up in a big way with the features on their dock.)

Acer, are you listening? You can surely come out with a much better dock.

Save your money and don't buy this dock.
[Acer Iconia A500] docfreed:
Actually, The Dock Is Quite Convenient

Nice and sturdy with two different positions. The mincluded remote lets you control a few things like Suspend/Resume and you can unlock the Iconia remotely. Volume/Pause, etc of course. And headphones out.

Charges nicely (need to get another power adapter)

ONE PRECAUTION: The dock automatically opens NemoPlayer so if you are rooted and have changed/deleted/renamed Nemo you must restore it or else the Iconia will not turn the dock on! Maybe some dev can figure a way around this.
[Acer Iconia A500] banksia:
Don't disagree with your assessment, but I still think this barebones dock is very pricey at $79.99.

> Charges nicely (need to get another power adapter)

Yes, and that costs another $29.99

So, dock plus power adapter costs $109.98 (before tax & shipping).

Let's compare this combination to the ASUS Transformer dock that costs $150.

- 2 USB 2.0 ports,

- an SD card reader,

- and a secondary battery that doubles the tablet’s battery life.

--------

If you want a stand to hold you tablet, try the Arkon Portable Fold-Up Stand ($12 at Amazon).
[Acer Iconia A500] docfreed:
Ah, I see. I had ordered mine before Acer unfortunately raised the prices in the store so the dock was $46.50 and the power supply was $10! I would agree that $100+ is too much for what you get.
[Acer Iconia A500] thisisnitwit:
I'd like to see some clever and shady Chinese company come up with a keyboard dock for this using the port.
[Acer Iconia A500] rorytmeadows:
Yeah, I don't really understand why anyone would buy it. Rumor is that Acer is working on a keyboard dock, though....
[Acer Iconia A500] panda.bear:
Didn't Acer announce a keyboard dock similar to the Transformer for the W500? I can't imagine the two docking ports being too different so hopefully the A500 will see something similar.
[Acer Iconia A500] jabbawalkee:
I sure hope they do a keyboard dock like the one for the Transformer.
[Acer Iconia A500] Lookup89:
keyboard dock +1

If acer made a good keyboard dock I would love them :P
[Acer Iconia A500] godashram:
i just want a dock that:

1: is weighted and securey holds my a500

2: comes with it's own power

3: has HDMI. USB (multiple a plus)

and as a bonus any other useful thing they can come up with, like media card reader, ethernet, anything else would be icing on the cake
[Acer Iconia A500] 84z28:
The W500 comes with a keyboard/dock. $549 for everything

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=186188&Sku=A180-101202
[Acer Iconia A500] sollie:
I use my tablet for movies. All the internet sites are telling me that de dock has hdmi. So its very usefull for me.

I like to know if the remote can control the mouse. So i can use the remote for controlling other movieplayers such as moboplayer.

Harm
[Acer Iconia A500] godashram:
all the pics i have seen of the dock show no hdmi at all, only power and a headphone jack.

seems expensive considering all it does if make movie playing on the device easier...
[Acer Iconia A500] sanaell:
My opinion is Acer messed up a little with their dock, but

Why people want the ACER dock

- HDMI port, there is one on the tablet.... is there any kind of "i dont want see cable out of my tablet" style ? for me USELESS... to have such a port on the dock

- USB ... humm that is a 50/50 coz there is one on the table, but add one more as hub could be nice... still useless 50/50

- SD Card slot? for what ?

- MicroSD Card Slot ??? for what ?

why not asking also a battery support

what the hell really, comparing ASUS and ACER on their dock

compare all in a row

ASUS tablet only is kind of.... naked... you need a dock to add options... should be on the tablet rather than the dock (wich is a keyboard actually more than a dock for me)

don't miss understand me, I don t have anything against ACER nor ASUS.

but just stop to make some stupid comparison.

compare what should be compare.

DOCK with DOCK

KEYBOARD with KEYBOARD

TABLET with TABLET

kindly

PS:

ACER make a dock for stand on a desk

ASUS make a keyboard dock for mobility and TRANSFORMER a tablet to a "netbook"

cannot be compare
[Acer Iconia A500] Johnny0906:
And most importantly the docking station should have its own 6 celled batteries so we can use our unit for 16,18 hours or more!
[Acer Iconia A500] andy8274:
the dock is great, but is overprice :eek:
[Acer Iconia A500] 4dthinker:
I've got the Acer dock for the A500. Once on in the dock all the remote does is control the nemo player. Left and right to choose between photos, music, and Videos. Enter to select. Back to go back a step. Select doesn't give you a list though, it just starts a slide show, a random song, or a random video from your selection. Power puts the tablet to sleep. Nothing but a headphone jack and a power jack on the dock besides the dock connector to the tablet. It is weighted and hold the tablet up fine, and in two positions.

You can press the Home button on the tablet itself (not the remote) to get out of the media player, and then use the tablet normally. But the only button on the remote that will work is the Home button to restart the media player.

Hopefully they have something better in mind. The user manual makes a reference to another dock WITH an HDMI passthrough, but I can't find any evidence of it on the web.
[Acer Iconia A500] tile00:
docks are a waste of money...agreed. if you just want to stand it up for something, the best way to do this is a very inexpensive art stand. these aren't expensive and it actually looks good on most furniture including your desk. this thing IS a waste of money
[Acer Iconia A500] robdg80:
I have installed the Thor Rom 14.2.

Where I get the nemo Player back for that docking station?
[Acer Iconia A500] loialotter:
I did a teardown of the dock in another thread (link) and found that the dock connector is, well, useless.

It has power, audio and a serial link (RS232 logic level). It is not possible to get HDMI through it though I'm guessing the other dock might give HDMI to the A100 tablets.

Also, custom kernels often don't include the driver required for the serial link on the dock so it's even more useless if you run a modded system.
[Acer Iconia A500] qwertylesh:
I had one (it was liked so much a relative begged me for it to use with their iconia) and it was wonderful, the only complaint is that it was JUST a touch too light weight, so you have to bluetack it to your table/area of choice.

If the main purpose of getting the dock is to not wear down your tablets DC jack or more, then your bound to be happy with it unless you like complaining about owning perfectly functional hardware and if so then dont expect me to listen ;)
[Acer Iconia A500] bitterq:
Thanks for that teardown... well outside my skillset to do on my own, but it answered all the questions I had been toying with. It's frustrating... Acer clearly threw this product together with no intention of it being much more than a large-ish ebook reader.

Thanks!
[Acer Iconia A500] arjuna_adek:
same like notebook if we used docking, not diffrent
[Acer Iconia A500] -beluga-:
Replacement for Nemo

I recently got a dock from eBay for USD28 shipped. That's about what it's worth without AC and just an audio port. There is a version '001' or something with HDMI and '002' without. I don't care for HDMI on my dock.

In any case, what bothers me immensely is Nemo Player popping up when docking. Does anyone know how to customize that with an app of my choosing please?

Thanks!
[Acer Iconia A500] rorytmeadows:
What would happen if you uninstalled Nemo Player?
[Acer Iconia A500] Hobo Sol:
First off, Apologies for the thread necromancy.

Got my A500 last week and my docking station arrived today, coming from a Blackberry Playbook, I wasn't expecting the dock to do much more than charge & display but the added remote/headphone jack is nice.

My biggest problem with the dock is the Home button. It seems to be assigned to Acer Media but I'd rather use Poweramp to play music.

If I disable Acer Media & Force stop it, The home button just does nothing but the rest of the keys seem to work fine.

Does anyone here know how to make the home button work as only the home button (or am I better off with using a BT Keyboard)?

I'd say for sure that anyone who is thinking about picking up the dock in this late stage should definitely consider if they're looking to use it as a charging stand & Media player before purchasing as it was a bit pricey to track down.
[LG Optimus 2x] joehahn:
I have two weeks old o2x and o2 carrier, and i have very often signal dropping.

It drops signal during phone call or i can see red X above signal bar from time to time. I have to hit automatic search for network to connect again...

Anybody with same problem? Is it software or hardware based?

I have V10C, it is latest for my country...

thx
[LG Optimus 2x] xmoo:
Mayb your holding it the wrong way.

The antenna is located on the bottom of the phone.

So keeping your phone tight during call can drop signal.