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[Verizon Droid Charge] angry english:
Yeah there having a problem with the authentication process when activating, its only happening on the LTE phones, can take 30-45 mins, my old thunderbolt did this the last day i owned it after it decided in needed re-activating after there radio update, and thats exactly what there 4g tech support told me was the problem, he said to restart the phone after 45 mins and it will activate straight away............... which it did which made me happy as i could then return it to the store, sadly i had to get an ipoop 4, and lucky for me i have a friend who`s a rep who got me a return on the iphone for the charge.....which is coming today :)

3 phones in 34 days lol and no re-stocking fee, THX VZW
[Verizon Droid Charge] californiarailroader:
It must be mostly in LTE areas, I'm in a non LTE area and mine activated within a few minutes.
[Verizon Droid Charge] MasterRy88:
I got my charge 8 days ago and in store the rep activated it, it failed, and he just re-did it and it worked. So its clearly a bit screwy right now
[Verizon Droid Charge] angry english:
Im also in a non LTE area until june 16th, my 1st TB took 45 mins and my charge took 30 mins, just luck of the draw i suppose
[Verizon Droid Charge] mypantsaretorn:
My new charge came yesterday and it took 30 minutes to activate but at least it finally activated!
[Verizon Droid Charge] yyhd:
Congrats. Now get some of that root action going. =D
[Verizon Droid Charge] binglejellsx2:
My DC just came in! I'm not sure of the cause, but after an hour wait, ED2 install or reboot everything started working. But within that hour I rebooted multiple times before I decided to finally try the update. And when the phone rebooted I finally had data access.

Prior, the phone was able to receive calls just fine, and in About Phone my phone number was displaying properly. The data just wasn't working.
[Verizon Droid Charge] underscored:
I had in-store issues too, the rep burned through 3 phones and about 6 sim cards trying to get a set that would activate. Finally about an hour and a half in he did. I decided considering I was getting paid by my office to go get a new phone, I wasn't going to rush the guy or act all p'o'ed because he was clearly having issues.

He had mentioned the (above mentioned) fact that it seems like this is something they're running into with LTE phones.

Get a phone call yesterday from the store manager thanking me for my patience, apologizing for the wait again, and letting me know there would be a credit (don't know the amount yet) on my next bill. +1 verizon
[Verizon Droid Charge] Lepaq:
I just got my Droid Charge in the mail a few minutes ago and I'm excited to get my very first smartphone started up.

However I read through the activation pamphlet that came with the phone and it wants to me to power off my old phone and call 1.877.807.4646 .... Is there any way to do this online instead?? Once I turn my phone off, I won't have any other way to call to activate
[Verizon Droid Charge] binglejellsx2:
First off congrats!

Yes, that's how I did mine. Just log into your VZW account and click on Activate Device. Then you choose the line you want the phone on and activate the 4G SIM card after.

The website said my settings took and the phone said it was activated; however, my data connection did not start working until after I allowed the update to ED2, an hour later. Coincidence? I don't know. Good luck!
[Verizon Droid Charge] Lepaq:
Woohoo, got the phone activated, but I've hit a snag

I can't send texts at all to anybody. I can receive calls, make calls, receive texts, browse the web, and download apps, but sending texts fails immediately.

My service plan has unlimited texting, so I'm not sure what the problem is. Any help?

edit: a simple reboot of the phone and it works fine now :)

edit again: Well I rebooted, sent one text fine, then tried to send a 2nd and it Failed again
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] asmith3:
I've searched around for this, but I haven't found any answers for my problem. I'm trying to root my droid incredible using unrevoked on my mac, but unrevoked isn't recognizing my phone even though I have it on charge only and usb debugging on. I'm not sure if this could have anything to do with it, but whenever I plug in my phone there is a pop up saying something about ntfs-3g and a problem that it had. Does anyone have an idea how to fix this and get the root to work?
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KKellett:
Few ideas

1 install HTC sync, which is on your phone, this will install drivers. After HTC sync and drivers install, delete HTC sync from computer but leave drivers.

2 if that doesn't fix some friends that I've rooted I actually had to change to disk drive once plug in.

Either way make sure drivers are installed. Best of luck
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] k_nivesout:
Well you don't need to install any drivers on a mac though. Try disk drive mode.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] asmith3:
I tried disk drive mode and it still didn't work
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] k_nivesout:
Hmm, I don't think I've ever had that error message pop up that you mentioned in the first post, do you have any trouble doing anything when you connect with USB? Do the drives pop up and you can move files around? And what message is unrevoked giving you when you start it up after connecting your phone? Maybe try switching between charge only and disk drive mode.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] asmith3:
It doesn't seem like I'm having any trouble connecting with usb. I'm able to move miles around and put files on it. Unrevoked says "waiting for device. plug in phone now and enable usb debugging." I do everything it says, and I have switched between charge only and disk drive mode but nothing happens.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] k_nivesout:
I'm really not sure what the problem is.. Perhaps a hardware issue? Have you tried different USB cables? Maybe a different computer? Are you running the latest version of OSX?
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] asmith3:
i'm going to try someone else's computer
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] asmith3:
im not sure why it wasn't working on my computer, but i'm running unrevoked on a friend's computer and it is working. thanks for the help though.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] k_nivesout:
Alright cool, sorry I couldn't think of anything..
[EVO 4G General] GuestX0011:
Yea In barstow,CA all of those listed are down. My phone is roaming on what I assume to be a Verizon network.

Sucks because now no calling or recieving calls etc. This seems different than the outages elsewhere because its effecting nearly all services, as well as landlines, :/

SUCKAGE lol.
[EVO 4G General] NewZJ:
That sucks bro
[EVO 4G General] GuestX0011:
Can't blame sprint for this one lol. I thought it was just odd that so many netowrks are down and went down all around the same time.its not just one tower its all of them in the surrounding area. lol.

ALIENS ARE invading where is my tin hat <.<
[EVO 4G General] magicalsleeper:
Maybe the towns *one* cell tower got hit by a vehicle or something :P just joking. Curious indeed.
[EVO 4G General] GuestX0011:
NA there are at least 6 towers spread out over the area. the one in the center of town is B hill. and When i say down i mean not receiving signals. I am roaming on what is verizon. Ever other network is down. Them lucky verizon people. BTW roaming on their netowrk alone out here is bogging it down :P. Calls can barely be made haha.

ehre is an error

RADIO Resource INTERFERENCE SHORTAGE lol

Cause code 64

Error class 2.
[EVO 4G General] GuestX0011:
DDispatchNewsDesert Dispatch

For anybody who can read this: Apparently only Sprint's network is working in Barstow. All other communication systems are down.

http://twitter.com/#!/DDispatchNews

Oh god that is ironic. Wonder why i am roaming now.

Aperently somone cut a verizon fiber backbone for the city.... BUWHAHAHA
[EVO 4G General] phatmanxxl:
Blame Bush.
[EVO 4G General] GuestX0011:
Blame oboma
[EVO 4G General] phatmanxxl:
Blame global werming.
[EVO 4G General] ckoadiyn:
its the end of the world!!! lol
[EVO 4G General] GuestX0011:
http://www.desertdispatch.com/news/barstow-10907-outage-service.html

Sub contractors cut the Verizon Fiber optic lIne. Bank's are down. No one is accepting Atm cards or credit cards either.

Well We know this small town has one backbone in and out of the city.. Glad I am before the cut so i have the net but cell service is roaming with on off conenctions and and data forget theat. recieving calls non existant.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] uskr:
A few people were complaining about 3g/4g speeds on AT&T network here in the USA.

I am on AT&T myself and decided to play a little bit to see if I could get any improvements.

In fact, after a lot of tests, I ended up getting between 100% and 200% increase (that's correct, double/tripple increase) adding the following parameters to /system/build.prop:

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 for you.

Here is two ways to add those values, if you never edited build.prop before.

"Safest" way 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.

Either way is fine. Using Root explorer will leave a .bak file on your /system, you can delete the .bak later on. Just make sure you have a copy of the original file somewhere, like your sdcard.

Root is required to do that, by the way.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] ronj1986:
Can you post some speedtest screens please, or tell us the speeds you are getting and what city please?
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] Andrmgic:
I'd like to try this, but /proc/mounts already lists the system partition as being rw.. but I can't write to it.. (yes, I do have root)

if anyone got this working through adb and would share the re-mount command for this device, that would be helpful.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] clubtech:
Not to sound skeptic but i think all those values only apply to HTC devices and they have no effect on Samsung devices.

I might be wrong though. Curious to see what other users report.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] uskr:
They do work on any android device.

The tests I did myself, with 15+ samples per test, I got configurations where the average of the top10 speeds were around 500kbps/300kbps(down/up) to 4.2mbps/1.8mbps (with the config I posted). Its pretty clear when I change it.

I only tested on ATT. VA, close to DC area.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] uskr:
If you are tryin to adb push to /system and you are using the stock kernel, you will have to first push to your sdcard then move it through adb shell to /system.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] robstunner:
WOW, you were only getting 500/300? My last speed test was about 5.1 down/1.5 up.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] uskr:
I was getting 1.5/1. 500/300 was while i was experimenting with the numbers.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] aussiebum:
Ah, I remember writing about this back in the old HD2 forums. Here's the reference thread I found a while back that explains what each of the settings does for those interested:

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=5123531&postcount=46

Should test these again myself and see what works best on my network.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] intruda119:
Im bored waiting for the basketball game so I did try the mentioned tweak. I just copy and pasted from the xda website. Click and hold build.prop for text editor, added the lines, menu, save and exit.

Now I truly believe that speedtest.net app is horrible. Its very unaccurate for actual speed of the device. I always get better speeds with either browser or tethering to my netbook.

With Speedtest.net app, I was getting 1.5mb down and 1.5mb up. Tested that 10 times, with 4full bars of hspda+ and results never went above 2mb down.

After applying the tweak, speedtest.net app showed 5mb down and 3.5 up. These are averages of about 10 test. Test showed between 5-10mb down and 3-5mb up. Take it for what you want but I did see a significant increase inthe APP.

True speed through downloading movies, music through browser would indicate 10-20mb download.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] robstunner:
im getting the exact same speeds as before
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] cmd512:
Heh, are you surprised. I love all these "I got the magic bullet to fix your problems!" posts, especially after new devices are released. For every 1 that actually works, there are always 9 that don't and are purely placebo effect........
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] intruda119:
Take my previous post however you want. My true download speeds are between 10-20mb down depending on my area. I downloaded a couple 1080p trailers and movies earlier while driving. In my 15 min drive I downloaded around 600mb worth of files. This was all before applying the tweak.

I truly think this tweak is more for the benchmark whores with the speedtest.net. Ever since the new update to that app, speeds shown were inconsistent.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] ronj1986:
Can someone tether this to their computer, then navigate to speakeasy.net/speedtest and choose a server and post your results?
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] RMXO:
Here are my results. 1st one is before the tweak, 2nd is with the tweak & 3rd is no tweak. The gap in time is because I went to dinner & came back to finish the test. Time might played a part in the results but can't be sure. Test was with H+ connection.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] nickbarbs:
Same crappy speeds up and down on orange uk. Reverting to old prop file
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] darkninja157:
Just tried adding the lines with dismal results. At first there seemed to be no real improvement, but after a few more test speeds where consistently lower by about 250-500 kbs. Upload speeds suffered the most dropping by almost 1 full mb. Maybe its because my lowly state of Delaware isn't covered in HSPA+, even though my status bar says H+ :( .

Either way it seems like I just need to wait for at&t to upgrade my area. Reverted back to the old build.prop and back to barely acceptable speeds.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] otester:
Remember people, even if a mast can output 21Mbps on a given channel, the maximum channel bandwidth will be limited to the maximum of the slowest connected device's maximum speed (3.6./7.2/14.4 etc.) due to modulation.

Speedtest app is ****, on 3G it can't even complete the upload test.

Their site is much more accurate, however you will need to change your user agent to get past the auto-market-redirect.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] RyanZA:
Nothing really wrong with the speedtest app, only the server selection. Manually try nearby servers yourself to find the best one, and then continue to test things using only that one manually selected server.

You will have much more consistent results.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] Elythor:
Just to report my results...

I'm on Telus in Canada and the tweaks did not improve speed. SpeedTest app was able to find the correct server close to me so distance was not a factor.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] Droidcarp:
I think these changes need to be carrier specific.

link below from the X10 forum has many specific carrier settings in post 2:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=951765&highlight=enhancement

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[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] uskr:
As of right now I am thinking the results a spotty. Some people had their speeds improved, some didn't. I wonder if it has anything to do with the upgrades AT&T is doing on their network right now.

I will leave mine as it is, I doesn't matter the time of the day, if I remove those fixes, the speed drops drastically. And immediately goes back up with them applied.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] cmd512:
Meh, probably time to label this tweak as ineffective...
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] mchimney:
Just tried this.

I have 2 Bars at my house, there seems to be almost no difference in data speed, it might have even made it slightly worse. I went from an average of 300kbps down to 100 and less. Upload is hanging anywhere from 15kbps - 50.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] otester:
Some of you seem to be missing the point here, this merely makes sure your device is performing at it's best, actual speed is largely determined by the mast.

Most ROMs have these settings by default, by removing them you are unoptimising.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] mchimney:
I didn't remove anything. I added those lines. I just went out into the backyard with another SGS2 in hand. Mine was getting 1mbps download 1 up on 4 bars, the ohter SGS2 was getting 4.5down 1 up. I even deleted the changes i made and i'm still getting less
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] otester:
1. Did you reboot your phone after adding the lines?

2. Both phones on same carrier?
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] mchimney:
Yea i rebooted. Both phones are on AT&T. However, one phone is on an iphone data plan (the faster speed phone).
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] bdpyo:
subscribed
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] uskr:
I will add "for those having problem" on the thread label.

You guys are missing the point, this is not to increase your speed if you are already at 6mbps download 2mbps upload. This is fix, not a magic.

For some people the fix did work. For me it's pretty clear when I add the fix to when I remove it. Anytime, anywhere I tested, if I remove, I go to really low (as in 1mbps download) speeds. If I add them, I get better speed.

I am currently using a "4g sim card" (I am not sure if it has anything different from a regular card) with a 4g unlimited data plan (grand-fathered) on ATT. I am currently on VA, close to DC area.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] xxmwxx:
That might be the reason I'm seeing such poor speeds with full bars on H+ with AT&T (1-1.5 down, 1-2.5 up), I'll call them up tomorrow to get them to upgrade my data to 4G (it's probably still set for the unlimited iphone plan - did they upgrade yours without an extra charge?)
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] uskr:
Yes, no extra charge. Same price, grand-fathered. Sim card was free too. Just went into an AT&T store and asked for a 4g sim card and to change my iPhone Unlimited plan to 4g Unlimited.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] wonderwout:
This lowest common denominator approach is how multiple access over WiFi works. UMTS networks operate in another way, various terminals or even session on one terminal can use various channels and modulations concurrently on the same site. The assigned channels and speeds are determined by; service required, terminal capability, network capability (and settings), available capacity and signal quality.

I think the parameters modified here are used to communicate to the network the maximum capabilities of the terminal so the network can decide on the best channel and modulation of the channel. Tweaking these parameters beyond the terminal capability will not help much I think. But if the phone reports lower capabilities 'per default', then overriding them might make sense.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] otester:
Could well be prioritizing, wouldn't put it past them.

Assuming 2 phones on 1 channel, 1 phone of the phones is 7.2 the other 14.4 and the channel is capable of 14.4, would that not limit the total bandwidth of both to 7.2?

Also do you have a link regarding this because others have mentioned it and I want to read up on it so I don't come across as a dumb***? :p
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] xxmwxx:
Cool. Gotta love AT&T, just called them up and they keep insisting I give them the IMEI for the device because it's new and they need to see it will even work on their network etc. I think I'll just go to a service point and get them to do it there.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] wonderwout:
No, the maximum capabilities of one terminal in a cell will not directly limit the maximum bandwidth of another terminal in a 3G WCDMA cell as it does on WiFi. They will use shared resources like back-haul transmission capacity of a site and transmission power of the used carrier. So they can and do impact each other in high load situations.

Scheduling and resource management in 3G WCDMA networks is very complex and hard to understand and explain, and I was in no way implying you where dumb. I work as an engineer for a 3G operator and after many years I still don't fully understand all the mechanisms for managing resources.

If you are interested, all specifications are public through 3GPP but it is hard to filter through this information. This links to a book which explains some WCDMA principals:

http://books.google.nl/books?id=yN5...Ag#v=onepage&q=UTRAN shared resources&f=false
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] otester:
I just felt like I had a massive gap blown in my knowledge lol.

Thanks for the link.

Just got hold of "WCDMA for UTMS - HSPA Evolution & LTE" (4th Ed. - Wiley), so I'll read that as it is more complete than the Google link.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] wonderwout:
Wiley is good, the link I send you was just a first relevant hit in Google to give an indication this stuff. I have information in my head and in many specific documents, but didn't have an obvious link providing information at this level
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] otester:
I would like to read it but the books near £70 lol. :eek:
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] rwj5279955:
Just got back from two AT&T centers and off chat with an agent. They said there is no 4G data plan and no 4G SIM cards. Only new SIMs blue & white.

Truthfully I am not satisfied with any answers I got. I told them I got a phone that supports HSPA+ and they told me it does not matter. As long as I did not have an ancient SIM. Three agents, same answer.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] uskr:
Yeah. I don't know what they feed those agents, but it's hard to find one that know what they are talking about. A couple weeks ago I was talking to this ATT rep in a store close to where I live and asked for 4g phones. She said there was no 4g phones available on ATT right now and they were still upgrading their network. I don't have to mention the big Atrix and Inspire posters on the front of the store. I stood there quite for a couple seconds wondering if I was on another planet.

The 4G sim cards I think it's only cosmetics, nothing technical different. But they do have 4g smartphones plans. If you buy an Atrix or an Inspire they will change your data plan to "4G Smartphone" plan. Mine is the "4G Smartphone Unlimited" because I am grand-fathered from an old plan.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] rwj5279955:
Yeah, I'm grandfathered in to the same unlimited data plan. Just not 4G.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] ronj1986:
I think we should take note of what APN settings we have when comparing network speeds, as this affects your speeds also. I thought my SGS2 network speed were high, until I compared it to the Samsung Infuse...the INFUSE would have faster downloads 8 out of 10 test. It would be a difference of 1-3Mbps faster, do it was a big deal. I set up my APN to mimic the Infuse's and my network speeds went up!!! Sadly I have forgotten which APN was from the Infuse, now I have 4 APNs to choose from, so it can be confusing:-(