yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] opencipher:
Ok..here is where it get even more F'd up. I called in..*****ed and complained and they basically told me too bad. The first too people I talked to couldn't confirm I was actually being throttled. The last person they spoke to (told me they deal specifically with this situation) told me that yes I have been throttled and I could either choose a tiered plan and pay extra per gig or use wifi. I told them I was going to go to Verizon because they are doing 10gigs per month for 5..and they said, "I understand your frustation and am sorry" but wouldn't do anything to remove the throttle.

Mind you I average about 10 gigs a month when I was on my iphone 4...and NEVER received a text. Within 5 days of me getting the SKYROCKET and going on an LTE network I get these texts and am now throttled..but here is where it gets interesting.........

For the past few days I was having trouble accessing certain sites, the phone would often just clock. I would disable and reenable the data radio and I could some how get on them. I read on here about changing your APN to force HSPA and this would fix it...it did. But I wanted LTE and I left it alone. Today I get the whole tethering fiasco and speed test are showing 120k..all day on LTE...

Earlier today a friend of mine was having the same slow loading sites issues on their SII and I walked them through setting up the APN and while walking them through I put mine back on HSPA. About an hour ago, i'm in DC and do a speed test for the heck of it and BAM....7mbps. I'm like WTF!!! I notice that i'm not on LTE and remember that I left it on HSPA. I switch back to ATT APN and the LTE symbol comes back and BAM 120k. So either LTE in DC is jacked or they are only throttling me on LTE. Some straight shady stuff by ATT.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Kadin:
And people were questioning me on why I thought this phone would be more desirable for people that have Unlimited Data. Throttled or not, at least you can still go above and beyond 2GB and not spend a ton of cash. I only use about 250MB as it is and I'll never give up my unlimited - but something tells me AT&T has a plan to down the road.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] davidusr:
I feel the same way. One way or another, they will get us out of our "unlimited" plan. In fact, I was really surprised they let us keep it, switching to LTE.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] albee320:
I dont have a SR, i have an infuse on the hspa+ network. My "home" area is LA. Last month i got a warning text at 3.5gb. It was 4 days.before the end of the cycle so i dont think i got throttled. This month, with two weeks left in my cycle, i got throttled at 2.1gb....down from 7.1Mbits to 120kbs

Slighly off topic but is there a similar way to circumvent the throttling issue for hspa+? I too have the grandfathered unlimited iphone plan
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] groves226:
in this thread there is a link to another thread that lists the apns

handheld google device
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Aztecbandit:
"Name...phone.

Apn..wap.cingular

User name..WAP.CINGULARGPRS.COM

MMSC...http://mmsc.cingular.com

Mms proxy...wireless.cingular.com

Mms port..80

Mcc..310

Mnc..410

Apn type internet+mms+"

Is this one of them? And does it work on 2.3.6? I'm getting the SR soon and if it's updated to 2.3.6 prior to my purchase I would like to be able to get off the LTE
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] opencipher:
From what I can tell...it doesn't work on 2.3.6..or at least it didn't for me. I went back to 2.3.5 and it worked fine.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] astang99:
I wonder how many complaints it will take for the FCC to actually investigate?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] opencipher:
unless you are attaching $10,000 to that complaint...probably not enough.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Scythe024:
I got the txt yesterday at 3.6gbs. First time ever getting the txt, 8hrs. Before my new month cycle, nice try att
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] groves226:
I made an FCC complaint against Nancy Grace, got a reply after a few weeks that they were looking into it... though I wonder if we should be sending complaints to the FTC?

You are receiving this email in response to your inquiry to the FCC.

Dear Consumer:

Thank you for contacting the Federal Communications Commission to share your concerns about inappropriate program material. It’s against federal law to air obscene programming at any time. It is also against federal law to air indecent or profane programming during certain hours. The Commission is charged with enforcing the law that governs these types of broadcasts.

Your views and concerns about program material are important to us. The Commission will review what you have submitted carefully to determine whether it contains sufficient information to suggest that there has been a violation of the obscenity, indecency or profanity laws. If it appears that a violation may have occurred, the Enforcement Bureau will start an investigation, which may include a letter of inquiry to the broadcast station. Further information about the complaint process is available on the Commission’s web site at http://www.fcc.gov/eb/oip/process.html, and in our consumer fact sheet entitled "Obscene, Profane and Indecent Broadcast," which we have attached for your convenience.

Again, thank you for contacting us about this important issue.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] s0cal:
This APN does not work on the Skyrocket on 2.3.5, I've tried it and I do not have any internet connection.

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Someone posted that AT&T probably checks your data usage on your phone by using the Visual Voicemail application installed on the phone to somehow ping data back to them. I think this may be true since I just set up my voicemail previously and then later I was hit with a message saying that my data usage is top 5%. Strange right? Well check this. I had issues with my phone and went and gotten a new phone since I am within 30 days of buyers remorse and guess what? When I setup the AT&T Visual Voicemail again, 10 minutes later I received another message saying I am in the top 5% data users. Coincidence? I only used about 1.6gb... I have disabled(freeze) AT&T Visual Voicemail in hopes that it blocks AT&T from checking my usage. I hope this works and maybe some devs or other users could chime in on this. We need to STOP AT&T from limiting our usage! ESPECIALLY those who ARENT even ABUSING the unlimited plan!! :mad:
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] opencipher:
I didn't even have mine setup when I got throttled..but I did check my data usage and within about 10 minutes I got the text. So you might be on to something though I don't think its just Visual Voicemail.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] orlandoxpolice:
Froze Visual Voicemail. used the APN in the first post and i went from 150 kbps to 500 kbps instantly.

are there any dangers in using another APN?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] s0cal:
not sure, if only someone who works with at&t could give us some info on how to prevent this throttling..
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] opencipher:
No...just long as you don't use the ATT PTA Apn you are fine.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] orlandoxpolice:
Nice. That APN wont work for LTE right? Not that I care tho since i am out of LTE range.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] privatewarrior1:
Could you please just shut the F up. We got your point already. I'm trying to weed through these threads for a solution and all I'm reading is your numerous HIGHLY SIMILAR answers.

Thank you points if people stop repeating themselves.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] opencipher:
No..you will only get HSPA+ speeds not LTE. But its better than 100kbps.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] s0cal:
agreed.. seriously.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] albee320:
+1 for this
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] nap286:
My last billing cycle i was at 6.5 gb.. i haven't been throttle.. so.. sucks for you!! When I'm home I'm on wifi anyways

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I727
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] duarterafael23:
I'm only getting 3-5 mbs on skyrocket on 4g is there something wrong with my phone I see everyone getting crazy fast speeds
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] opencipher:
I get amazing speeds (when not throttled) but it varies. HSPA+ coverage isn't that great.....I can move around my house and drop 2-3 mbps. When I'm in my LTE area I can fluctuate 10-15 mbps
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] duarterafael23:
Right out the box??? I'd be happy with 10 mbs my iphone use to do 3-4 I thought this would be faster
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] 00mred00:
That is 4g....4g lte is crazy fast
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] duarterafael23:
So I'm not getting 4g late?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] mostyle:
Signal..

Look at your data signal indicator...

Depending on theme.. if your on HSPDA+ the icon is 4G. If you're actually in an LTE area the icon says 4G with tiny little LTE below the G.

I live in the Augusta Ga area which is a 4G market and depending on signal when im in LTE Ive seen 16 mbs down and 18mbs up. When my signal drops back to HSPDA+ I average 8mbs down and 1mbs up.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] s0cal:
Is there a way to force the connection to 4g? Currently I'm in a Lte area and in connected so my downloads are 100kb... I am using another apn but still throttled since I'm in lte area I guess... people are saying to switch network mode but I don't see that option.. it's not available. Greyed out.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] opencipher:
Look at the first post on this thread. You need a different ROM...plus it might not work on 2.3.6
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] s0cal:
Thank you, will give it a try right now.. This really sucks since I am at work and cannot download the rom with a 100kbps downstream connection... Horrible. Stuck at work with no netflix or youtube or pandora is a fail..
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] opencipher:
You might want to try this..(it worked for me until I was able to switch the ROM and force the Network Mode.) try the new APN and then make a phone call and stay on it for a while. The phone call forces 4G and kicks you off LTE. I detail it in the thread somewhere. But after a while, (after hanging up), LTE never kicked back in and I stayed on HSPA. Not sure if it was a fluke or not, but before I switched ROMs that is what I did to bypass the throttle.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] s0cal:
First of all, thank you OP for the post. This did solve the problem of throttling. I am now using HSPA+. Another question though, does this APN allow me to get MMS or do I have to add the other Cingular WAP to get MMS to work? And Also, if I do need to add the Cingular WAP, how does that work? That means I will only have one APN working at a time right? So in order to get MMS to work I switch to Cingular WAP APN, then to get unthrottled bandwidth, I have to switch back to HSPA+?? Sorry for the confusion...
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] 00mred00:
Month 2 ...got the warning text at 3.79 gb ...19 days into our billing cycle. Right after using slingbox to watch the first half of a football game. Last month I got the warning right after testing my new slingbox....then throttled the next time I used it.

Has anyone else seen a pattern with getting the notices ???
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] opencipher:
You don't have to activate the "MMS" apn...its just on and is not selectable. So no need to switch, it just works. Some people have been able to use the MMS apn and choose "internet/mms" as the APN type which makes it selectable and just use that one alone. What ever works for you
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] stevegee111:
HSPA apn suddenly stop working?

Tried the HSPA+ ATT apn. Was good for 2 days. Then no signal with it. When ever I switch to it - no 4g signal no data. Anyone else just have this signal disappear?

Im wondering if something I installed is blocking it. Thanks
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] s0cal:
Does this method work on a rom that is 2.3.6 based?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] opencipher:
I have not be able to do it on 2.3.6, but I only tried it on one ROM. I can't test now because I'm unthrottled...but give me a few days and I'm sure I'll be throttled again.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] groves226:
Mr. Groves,

I have received your concerns as filed with the FCC. I attempted to reach you today at 11:46am est at *removed* and left a voicemail message.

It sounds as if your concerns are regarding AT&T’s practice of slowing data speeds for those individuals listed amongst the top 5% of data users. I can see that this practice was discussed with you on 11/16/11. Here is some additional information regarding this practice.

· Customers will always be notified as their usage approaches the top 5% of heaviest data users and before they experience a change in speed.

· Reduced data speeds are restored with the start of new billing period.

· Customers can avoid reduced speeds by setting their smartphones to use Wi-Fi, which does not count against their wireless data usage. If speed is of top importance, they may also wish to switch to a Tiered Usage data plan. Tiered Usage data plan customers can pay for more data when they need it and will not see reduced speeds.

· Smartphone data plans include unlimited data via Wi-Fi at home, school, and office (where available) and at more than 27,000 AT&T hotspots nationwide.

o The vast majority of AT&T smartphones have built-in Wi-Fi, and when enabled, can automatically switch between the wireless network and a Wi-Fi hotspot without prompting

At this time, AT&T has no plans of discontinuing this practice as it is now our policy. Please advise if you have further questions regarding this.

Thanks,

Lalani Bullock

Customer Appeals Manager, Executive Response

AT&T Business Solutions

AT&T Mobility Services

Office: *removed*

Wireless: *removed*

Fax: *removed*

This message, including any attachments, is the property of and may contain confidential information of AT&T. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender of the error and delete this message and any attachments.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] s0cal:
Does anyone know how to stop this? 4G will work then you will get no signal and get kicked off. When i go back to network setting and click on network mode, it says its on the GSM/HSPA/LTE mode when it shouldnt be. I had it in GSM/HSPA Dual mode, but it gets kicked off after awhile and goes back to the LTE mode... any fix for this??
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] opencipher:
You have juice defender or anything that disables the radio and back on. Noticed the samething was happening to me when I had juice defender..had to uninstall it.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] groves226:
use that and make an fcc complaint, need transparency in their 5% or they are targetting streaming media apps
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] futureshock25:
Att calls hspa 4G when it's really not and those are about the speeds you can expect. If you are on LTE getting those speeds something is wrong though.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] astang99:
Wow this phone becomes useless when you get throttled
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] promiseofcake:
I think I read somewhere that in order for the HSPA APN to work you need to be provisioned accordingly. I went from Blackberry 3G unlimited to LTE Unlimited and I cant get the HSPA APN to work, it still just stays at LTE. I also can't get the wap.cingular APN to work which we used to use for tethering and other things. Any thoughts? I tried to look into my account but the service provision codes don't show up any more.

Thanks
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] 00mred00:
Yeah day 3 after getting the warning and not throttled. something tells me that as soon as I run slingbox again they will throttle me

I will try and test the theory tomorrow
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] aznrice2k4:
I had the same problem too. I was throttled at around 5gb into the first week of my plan. I called them and complain. The regular representative couldn't really help me so she transferred me to a specialist. On the end, nothing changed, a wasted 2 hours of my life, no information was given. They couldn't tell me the exact threshold for my throttled. Àll he could say was that it varies market to market and everything is automated so they cannot gather anything.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] orlandoxpolice:
cant get mms to work
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] opencipher:
Are you on 2.3.6?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] groves226:
after my fcc complaint ive gotten emails and calls from att (attached the one email in a previous post) and the next time ill actually answer/return the call and record it to see what is said and post it on pastbin or something.

handheld google device
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] dvandam:
I'm a little worried that soon AT&T will aim their deathly gaze at my usage. I held on to my unlimited data plan and have used it very liberally recently because I stream SiriusXM audio all day while at work (they don't let me stream through the computer and I can't get a signal). I'm planning on migrating to an MP3 solution soon, but from Sept through December my usage has been 5GB, 3.4GB, 4.9GB and 5.3GB, and the 3.4 is only because I was out of the country for 10 days and used no data (data roaming rates in China are insane.) Still, I never got any complaints from AT&T. I was using a Nexus One with CM7.1, so maybe they weren't able to fully track it like they can the Skyrocket.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] privatewarrior1:
FYI, actually I have a nonLTE hspa+ SGS2 and I'm throttled. It seems there's no work around for non lte phones. BTW my data plan is still an iphone plan
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] privatewarrior1:
after reading through this thread twice I think I'm going to sell my newly acquired SGS2 and buy the Skyrocket. What do you guys think?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] promiseofcake:
2.3.5, 2.3.6 had been pulled by the time I got my device, is this a Pro or a con in this case?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] opencipher:
Good..i couldn't get it to work on 2.3.6
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] promiseofcake:
And I can't on 2.3.5, hmm. I can do HSPA only with Rogers ROM but not via APN method. Anyone have the APN Backup Restore XML file that has the APN method working and willing to share?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] opencipher:
Are you also using a rom that forces the network mode to HSPA only? I don't think the stock ROM gives you that option. I have the APN back up xml..let me find it.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] opencipher:
Try this one.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] promiseofcake:
Thanks I'll give that a go. I'm on boneSTOCKeteer now so there are more options.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] promiseofcake:
That loads the same pta APN, so no go.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] 00mred00:
well guys...here we go...

still not throttled but I have not used slingbox since the day I got the warning txt.

slinging now...we will see what happens
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] opencipher:
This is the only other one I have...what are you using to load these? "APN backup and Restore?" I also noticed I had to reboot in order to see them.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] opencipher:
How much data have you used so far?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] s0cal:
I am currently using beastmod 4.2 and using the apn still doesn't work. I got throttle down to 100kb-300kb... what am I doing wrong? Stock att kernel.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] 00mred00:
Current

Next Bill Cycle: 01/06/2012

Data (MB): 4169.5 of Unlimited

Messaging: 2818 of Unlimited

Visit us online at www.att.com/DataPlans

When i got warned

Next Bill Cycle: 01/06/2012 Data (MB): 4073.9 of Unlimited Messaging: 2671 of Unlimited Visit us online at www.att.com/DataPlans
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] opencipher:
Do you have the ability to force network mode...or is it grayed out? If you can manipulate it, you need to take it off of LTE.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] xsessive:
got throttled at about 11gbs ( lots of nba games ) and was getting about 1300k down on lte here in puerto rico but after the throttle i have been on getting 15k down which is unbelievable

i have been forcing my phone to 4g none lte by switching wifi on then going into airplane mode.next i switch to new none lte apn after which i switch airplane mode and wifi off and the phone automatically goes into 4g which have caped to about 500k down.

f att
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] opencipher:
Good tip...I was doing something similar by going to new APN, making a phone call for about 10 minutes and then it would "stick" to HSPA+, but now with the SKYROCKETEER ROM I can force the Network mode
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] xsessive:
i have never rom and besides kinda want to wait for ics official

i have seen the thread for that rom but me being all that new to roming cant se me self doing it without bricking it like my friend did to my old atrix...unless one of you could do one of thos video tutorial lol

i did root it lol superoneclick (rooting for dummies)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] s0cal:
switched over to skyrocketeer rom but im having problems putting it into HSPA/GSM mode. It just keep searching.....
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] opencipher:
Are you disabling your data first? Then changing network mode..then re-enabiling data.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] opencipher:
weird..I'm at 3 gigs and haven't been throttled yet..but I haven't been using the PTA APN. I stayed on the other one just for the hell of it. I'm gonna see how far I can go. Maybe If i'm lucky they will throttle me on HSPA+ then I can switch to LTE and not be throttled :).
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] WIZARDfan:
I added new API setting as described but the only trouble I have is I don't see an option to select 'Network Mode' under Mobile Networks. Do i have to be rooted? please help.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] opencipher:
Yes, because you need a custom RoM. Some people are saying that you can do a work around by enabling flight mode..etc. I have been able to do it by changing the APN then making a long phone call. (about 10 minutes) then HSPA sticks, before using a custom ROM.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] opencipher:
http://www.change.org/petitions/att-data-throttle

someone has a petition going...we all need to sign it.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] tjsooley:
signed thanks
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Above&Beyond™:
Its going to be hard getting this petition to get approved with "stupid" people placing false information inside. After signing this petition, I've notice "Steve Jobs" has multiple signs in them... Steve Jobs, rest in peace, would not, could not, have signed this..

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WOW.... I've just noticed how little opencipher has been thanked for the information that he has provided. I believe he deserves more thanks. Seriously. Everyone should be thanking him. :D