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[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] privatewarrior1:
I've read through this thread twice.

all of it and tied every fix. All apns listed there did not work for me. Even switched from SkyIce to Skyroketeer to avoid the 2.3.6 issue but no luck.

ROMs tried: Skyroketeer (current), SkyIce and stock

Less than a month ago I ordered the Skyrocket just for the purpose of bypassing the throttle.

I used to use a SG SII.

I remember when they first started throttling in October, I read about the solutions. At the time I received their warning txt that I would be throttled next month (NOVEMBER) and NOT IN OCTOBER. So I tried some APNs and remember I stayed on the "phone apn" for awhile since it was faster.

Do you think they are watching me on all APNs now?

Is their a solution for this? I am throttled everywhere whether on LTE or Hspa or 3G area.

The only solution I see is to return the phone (I have less than a week left) and sadly leave att.

Please any ideas or tricks I should use as a last resort?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] 00mred00:
Not without paying an arm and a leg for it on tiered data.

I posed that question when the rep on the phone gave me the network congestion story... the only difference between 5gb unlimited and 5 gb tiered is price.

That's when she told me the throttle system was not intended to affect those using 2-5gb.. it had obviously worked and brought that top 5% number down this low and she was not sure what art would do at this point..

She made it sound like the throttle was temporary and might go away but I doubt it
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] privatewarrior1:
I noticed that under Mobile Network Settings, selection of HSPA ONLY doesn't hold, it kicks it back to GSM/HSPA/LTE (AUTO), but I can select GSM/HSPA (AUTO).

Do you take this may be the problem?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Phoneguy589:
I got throttled just under 3 gigs. All I did.is change the apn from pta to phone and i'm running faster than ever. I didn't get the 5% warning though.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] privatewarrior1:
Can you provide more info on what ROM you're using?

Did it work right off the bat? any tweeks you had to perform?

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Note that your upload speed is 1 mb/s so you can upload ****load of files. If you can tether, adrive.com gives you 50GB of free storage. punish the bastards by uploading and saving your favorite movies to adrive.com then deleting them when you run out of space.

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I was originally throttled on a non-lte SG-S2.

I switched to skyrkt to try this bypass.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] orlandoxpolice:
As much as I hate what they are doing with throttling, maliciously using throttle bypasses to "punish" AT&T by hogging bandwidth is probably a really bad idea, and will most likely just end up hurting the users even more in the end.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Phoneguy589:
I agree with you completely. I think they should do tiered throttling. Like at 5 gigs, throttle to 1/4 of full, @ 8 gigs 1/2 of full and over 10 gigs 3/4. I'm not using real numbers add far as gigs are concerned but you get the point. I work for Att and i've been to peoples houses that were using their phone data plan for their home internet.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] 00mred00:
The problem is that we are not (at least not me) using our phone for home internet. I gladly pay $30 a month to time Warner for broadband at home.

And I disagree completely...if they are going to throttle based off of the average of the top 5%...by all means push that number up. I use average 5-8 gigs a month.. and that is conservative. I use the crap out of wifi when it is available
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] orlandoxpolice:
i have been throttled the last two months as soon as i go over 3.5 gb

has ATT released any information about the so called 'top 5%'

I would be interested in seeing those numbers...
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] 00mred00:
No they have released nothing
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] ManImCool:
Using the Sky Ice Cream Sandwich rom. Worked immediately. No tweaks. Stock radio, stock kernel. Just turn data off, switch to the bypass APN, switch to the HSPA/GSM network (the HSPA only network won't stick when I try and select it, but the bypass works perfect when the HSPA/GSM mode is selected), turn data back on, boom HSPA+.

I was originally throttled on my HTC Inspire 4G, and pretty quickly too into the billing cycle, rendering my phone useless for more than half of the month. That's why I got the Skyrocket; because this bypass exists.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] privatewarrior1:
When you were on the HTC, did you try any of the APNs to bypass the throttle?

I'm in the same boat. I got the Skyrkt to bypass the throttle but it seems, like 00mred00, I seem incapable to do so?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] orlandoxpolice:
This is extremely suspect to me. I am sure they have covered their asses legally in the fine print on the contracts, but with no public data released on how much data the top 5% use, it is hard to say if their throttling techniques are what they say they are.

Judging from people's comments about how much data they have used before the throttle (ranging from 1.5gb to almost 6.5gb) it seems like ATT is throttling as they see fit, and using the 5% excuse to legitimize it.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] privatewarrior1:
So Latino, we should:

1. do a 3e recovery

2. install quikwiz for instance

3. use wap-apn for 3 days

4. switch to lte. i.e pta apn

regarding # 4, what if I am still throttled. Do I still switch to pta? and how long to I stay on it before I can try to switch apns?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Phoneguy589:
I specifically said in my post I wasn't using real numbers :rolleyes:

My Att bill is approximately $400 a month so I think I shouldn't have been throttled today at 2.8gigs with d/l speeds of .20mb per sec. I called and they said they don't see any reason why I got throttled and I never got a warning this month. I did get a warning back in December but I was in LTE areas so data added up quick and I hit 5 gigs.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] privatewarrior1:
BTW, how do you check and change the radio?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] orlandoxpolice:
you can flash a new radio through CWM
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] 00mred00:
sorry..wasn't picking you apart by any means.

We are right there with you. 6 lines since 2000

the sad part is I asked, " so what if we decide to cancel service over this"

one response she gave was that other providers now throttle as well

the other was that in the end if a user wants to cancel they are instructed to let them cancel...there is no go to other than this new "throttle" call center, no supervisors, no retention department

I am going to give another one of seanz roms a try... it seems that when I am on his roms I don't get throttled, as soon as I switch I get hit again

maybe coincidence, maybe not

I have pulled services.jar from my current rom (quickwiz) to see if there are throttling files in there...I was reading last night that tmobile does it that way
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] privatewarrior1:
a non subscription plan with t-mobile sounds like a good remedy. One can get their own phone and up to 2gb of data for only $45. I know people can go over this amount of data using some hacks.

I might just try that.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Phoneguy589:
No problem, I was a bit upset at the company I work for and was a little touchy... Sry.

I think they're 5% margin might be based on area and demand which might be the reason they don't have a fixed number.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] latinohot:
sorry i was away to answer you, but the way I did it was whenever i hit lte speed where i was I'd use it for at least 45 minutes straight no connecting and reconnecting, just straight through, then swith the phone to airplane mode wait 2 minutes, get the phone out of airplane mode and switch bands to not have lte, and since then when i get throttled on lte, i switch to just hspa and I can do everything i need, infact i'm using my phone right now to watch Netflix as i type and alson I'm using it as hotspot throu usb for my laptop and netflix is not even buffering, sorry for such long post btw,

Edit. the rom i use is Seanz, btw, and i find that this rom has more consistant speeds throughout, just a suggestion on roms.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] ManImCool:
So yesterday, after about 3 weeks of successfully pulling off the HSPA bypass, my billing cycle started over. I was looking forward to trying out these LTE speeds again. And boy, I did. Lots and lots of videos, etc. Keeping in mind that my billing cycle reset YESTERDAY, imagine my shock when late last night I received the warning text! On the first ****ing day!! And then about a few more hours after that, I'm now throttled! On the first. ****ing. day. of my. NEW. billing cycle. I'm ****ing furious. But whatever, I good thing I still have my bypass APNs. So I go through the usual steps of switching back to the bypass APN and switching the network mode, yet for some horrible reason this time, upon several attempts and several speedtests, I'm still throttled! No matter what I do now, the APNs that worked last month no longer work! Is it possible they are blocking these now? Maybe for some individual users, not everyone yet? This is ridiculous and I'm freaking out, because I obviously can't have this unusable throttled phone for 30 days out of a billing cycle and be unthrottled for the first day.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] orlandoxpolice:
If anyone is currently successfully bypassing throttle, I would not leave that APN or even shut off your phone until we figure out what is going on with these new throttles.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] latinohot:
I noticed that last week when i was in San Antonio, TX

no matter what apn I chose it would be throttled, 'till I held the power button 'till it vivrated 3 times, then i release the power button and booted up, after bootin I immidiately switch apn's to wap and I wasn't throttled anymore, so just to test my findings i switched back to lte and sure enough i was throttled immiadately and again no matter what apn i used it wouldn't matter, so I redid my first steps and was back in just hspa and no throttling there. I hope it helps.

@phoneguy589, And I thought I was paying too much @235/mo

2 smartphones

1 non-smartphone(but using a t-mobile sgs4g unlocked)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] privatewarrior1:
The data used get reported to your account one day later. They call it latency. So to be safe, stop downloading one day or two before the end of your billing cycle. This happened to me before.

The one gig I tried to upload during day 31 got reported as data used during my first billing cycle.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Phoneguy589:
Not sure if anyone has looked at this but in /data/data/com.android.providers.settings/databases

Open the settings.db and look in secure.

Line 31 (on skyics7) it says throttle_reset_day and the number 23 under value. I think that's the day I got throttled or if I was 23 days into my billing cycle. Anyway, just thought I'd throw that out there if anyone wants to investigate more.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] orlandoxpolice:
Try changing the value to 30 or 31
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Phoneguy589:
I will next time I get throttled. I start my new billing cycle tomorrow so I don't want to screw something up. I'm curious to see if it changes tomorrow.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Phoneguy589:
Ok. Just got unthrottled. The folders updated were:

/sys - bus, dev, firmware and fs.

/dev - socket

/data - property - persist.radio.nitz folders

/data/system/usagestats

/data/system batterystats.bin

/data/system dropbox (but nothing inside that I could see changed)

/acct/uid --- most of the files were either accessed or changed starting at 11:43pm

/efs cryptprop_onetimeboot

/efs crypprop_securewipedata

Not sure if this info is helpful but I figure it might help those of you who know what this stuff means.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] jjtitus098:
So I'm pretty sure I've been throttled. I have only used 2gb this month and I never received a text. I used over 3gb, close to 4 last month and never got throttled. I'm getting speed tests of 100kb/s
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] LunaWizard:
Can we please stick to the point this post is not so everybody can come and cry about the throttle issue is to solve it :mad: and im still not clear on how to do this ....ok so pretty much what i got is RACKETEER ROM and then enter the apn settings obviously this ROM lets you do as you please with these type of settings cuz i already have a costume rom and its still not letting me modify the settings :confused:

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it actually works ATT can kiss my ass:D:.....they took me out of my grandfather plan cuz of tethering i said kiss my ass and got it back with the iphone 2G method:rolleyes: and was like BWUAHAHAHA:D and now they THOUGHT they was gonna keep me in 2G speeds with my skyrocket and i am now in HSPA+ speeds at minimum once again BWUAHAHA:D i guess all i need to do is switch back and forth ill have my golden LTE speeds here and there and when i wanna slow it down BOOM HSPA+ :cool:
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] privatewarrior1:
Lucky bastard. :D Enjoy...I'm still trying to figure what's wrong with my ****.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] privatewarrior1:
mine says 0 on line 11.

cannot alter the file.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] RipplingHurst:
I got the 5% message. Usage was 1.7GB...wtf. I called and they said it must have been a mistake. I have unlimited data. Not throttled yet.

I tried the few apns in the OP, they worked, not lte of course, but it reflected immediately in my acc.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] 00mred00:
Sorry if it was lost in translation but the past few pages we have been trying to narrow down

1. Att's criteria for throttling...which has been determined to be 2gb or 5gb based on market.

2. How to continue to bypass the throttle, as the previous methods of changing the APN are no longer working in all markets.

Hey guys, what app are you using to view classes.dex on the phone?

I am going to try and use smali at home tonight but would love to look at it while I am at work..super bored
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] opencipher:
I'm not sure we can say its no longer working in all markets...we've only seen a handful of people that say its not working for them, with most of them having it never worked. So it might be something else.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] orlandoxpolice:
what do you mean 'updated'?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] 00mred00:
That's quoted out of context :p

I mean it works in some but not others. I guess you are right though we don't know that it is market based.

How many of you that are able to bypass are using an old simcard from a previous device vs a new sim?

Oh i checked out that DB file above....mine has no mention of throttle anywhere.. line 31 is something completely different
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Phoneguy589:
Right at 12:00 midnight those files in root explorer were accessed or or something because I could see the timestamp next to those locations. I did a speed test at 11:30pm and then again at 12:25am and I was unthrottled.

I noticed a folder called radio_adb, wonder if I changed permission on that if it would stop them from accessing or modifying via network.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] privatewarrior1:
check line 11

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so what exactly did you change?

can you give us the files you edited and values used?

thx
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] latinohot:
is worht a shot, btw, i am using a brand new sim card when i got the skyrocket i was told that my sim card was too old(it was from the original Tilt)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Phoneguy589:
I was throttled and knew my billing cycle was changing so I was trying to see what changed from 11:30-12:30 to let people know what to look at.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Phoneguy589:
I'm using my sim from my atrix but right around the day I got throttled I Odin'd back to stock and installed cyanowiz. Don't know if it was a coincidence or not.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] privatewarrior1:
O I get it.

Does root explorer allow you to know when and what files got updated?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Phoneguy589:
I looked in each folder around 12:10am before I did a speed test and posted the folders that were time stamped when I knew I want using the phone.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] 00mred00:
None of the lines match that...I checked.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] 00mred00:
I still believe stock rooms have something to do with it in some cases.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] orlandoxpolice:
Are people getting throttled on aosp?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Phoneguy589:
I'm on skyics 7.3 so there might be differences between roms
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] latinohot:
i have the same rom as well
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] 00mred00:
I tried switching to but was still throttled. I can't take the bugs so not intending on running it as a daily driver.

I am back on quickwiz and staying there.

I think we have decoded that if throttling continues we will just go ahead and change plans. :(
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] latinohot:
I hope that by doing this some dev can help us bypass the stupid speed limit they have us go in, once they start to throttle(even thou my wap works fast enough:))
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] LunaWizard:
i just got my LTE back yesterday:D so what im gonna do is not use it as often to last longer in the bill cycle hopefully i get passed the 14th last month it was like the 12th and i got throttled but when i do get throttled im switching back to HSPA+ mode and im unthrottled again using at least 5mbps to 7mbps:D max im happy with that ****ttttt..... its ALOT better than 230kbps 2g speeds;)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] latinohot:
Lol, you and I are in the same monthly cycle
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] orlandoxpolice:
I just realized I'm bypassing download throttle but my upload speed is still garbage. I wonder if that is a function of sky ics version 6.75?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] 00mred00:
See that's weird... entire time I was throttled, only download speed was affected
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] latinohot:
Yes weird in fact, when i was throttled in LTE, both were affected

Just out of curiosity at 00mred00, which apn were you on when trying to by pass

If it helps this is the apn I was using

NAME

AT&T

APN

wap.cingular

Proxy

not set

Port

80

User name

WAP@CINGULARGPRS.COM

Password

CINGULAR1

Server

Not set

MMSC

http://mmsc.cingular.com

MMS Port

80

MCC

310

MNC

410

Authentication Type

None

APN Type

internet + mms
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] 00mred00:
It was the same on both apns. The only time upload was throttled was on PTA from what I remember
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] latinohot:
Did you try the apn I posted?

Oh and also if you have entitlement listed, DELETE IT, as soon as I deleted it from the phone my wap apn would work flawless
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] 00mred00:
Well my billing reset today but I will try. Oddly enough i thought I tried deleting entitlement/broadband but I will try it when I get throttled again.

Typically I delete ALL apns with apn backup and then create the apns I want to use.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] WIZARDfan:
I am on stock att rom. Got throttled last month and used settings described for another apn. It worked like charm on 4g (of course of doesn't work on LTE). Just got throttled this month and tried to use that apn and it is not working. Am I missing anything?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] ManImCool:
What is the entitlement APN? I just deleted mine but both of my bypass APNs that worked last month still won't work. This sucks. Is ATT on to some of us?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] nismax:
Interesting ....im watching this closelly

Send from my SG2-i777 using XDA Premium App
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] privatewarrior1:
well I guess it appears att trottle is a server side throttle.

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This sounds like what the at&t ceo Randall L. Stephenson would say.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] hiii_imkris:
I'm going to give this a try this month if I get throttled again. Billing cycle started over today 2/7 so I'm good now. They hit me at 5gb last month without a warning or anything and speed dropped to .15.

Month before I was at 11gb and got a message but speed wasn't throttled. Weird.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] orlandoxpolice:
I have a feeling that if you switch back to your normal apn you will have less chance of the throttle bypass working this time around. My billing cycle just ended but I am staying on the bypass apn because I don't want to lose it. Also I don't have LTE in my area so it's not a concern yet
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] shansmi:
run traffic monitor. you will be suprised at just how much is not user plane traffic. i am up over 6gb myself but have had no warning. i know for a fact it takes 400mb for me to build my device... sync, apps and initial config.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] JFizDaWiz:
My goal is to get throttled. I got unlimited data through the original iPhone loophole, only been with AT&T a week, moving from sprint
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] randomtask16:
I went through 4gb of data just doing speed tests alone. Regular usage usually puts me around 2-3gb, thats without streaming video or anything.

I used 6.6gb in August somehow and never got a warning though, 2 days after skyrocket I get usage warnings. Not throttled yet, but I did cut usage off and am using wifi.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] imjester77:
But once you are throttled...doens't it reset at the end of the month? If not ..WTF would be the point of keeping the phone!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] groves226:
just got hit myself... 100m over the 5g magic line. They are really holding to the crap in their TOS now...

kinda silly, 3G GSM network is a lot different in the actual way the transmission systems work then the way an LTE network works.... so the things that apply at 3G gsm dont all apply on LTE.

booooo :(
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] propsizzle:
sucks man, sorry.

it seems so odd. with LTE so new, and so few devices, i can't imagine the load is all that high on the network.

i bet they are just setting precedent. i mean, they also have to know that people will get online and complain, and others will scale down their use to avoid being hit with throttling. and if you hate it, they will suggest a capped plan, with overage charges.

consumer keeps on losing.