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[HTC EVO 3D] sgt. slaughter:
jw why you are using kB/s as opposed to the more normal widely used kbps or Mbps?

other users around here are likely to confuse those two.

regardless your speeds are off their "OFFICIAL" publicized standards.

http://shop2.sprint.com/en/stores/popups/compare_data_speeds_popup.shtml

Least your DL is. your upload is inline though.

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Interesting that after I did this I am only getting connected to 1xRTT when I was connected to EVDO-A. tried different servers all at same location as previous tests done too(my home).

Will have to drive around later and see if i can pick up a different tower and get evdoa. Would show that they are working on my tower at least.

and yes i have updated profile and prl after the steps suggested above.

gonna try it again now as they cant get worse than they are.

Edit:

Well i did it a second time and now back to connecting to EvdoA, though still crap speeds as before the initial attempt to do the reset but better than the 1x crap.
[HTC EVO 3D] SketchyStunts:
yea, its gotten way worse.
[HTC EVO 3D] mikejones13:
That is actually better!!!! LOL usually I am getting no more than 37 kbps :( and my upload is usually around 950kbps :confused:
[HTC EVO 3D] Jordan4320:
Kind of a crazy question but here we go. If my evo 3d is rooted what will happen if you do a firware update? ( I know I dont get OTA's but would is break something or slow data down?)

When I did this:

it made me update the firware update

Originally Posted by gunfromsako

Try this...

##72786#

select edit and enter MSL

select menu and then Reset

After phone goes through "hands free activation" and your back at your dialer, enter this:

##3282#

select edit and enter MSL

select data profile

select menu and select Restore

Update profile

Make sure you have a good data connection to allow hands free activation.
[HTC EVO 3D] sgt. slaughter:
It didn't do the update it just looks for a firmware update. that is all. This is done after the hands free activation automatically.
[HTC EVO 3D] ElJimmy:
Hey slaughter are you still in Raleigh and is so if you don't mind me asking what part and after my tarheels put in work last night you might wanna change that pic lol.
[HTC EVO 3D] sgt. slaughter:
South raleigh bud near 401 and Tryon rd.

Haha yeah bad game, never seen em play that bad before all year. That pic represents football. Lol
[HTC EVO 3D] Jordan4320:
So I did this and my phone would not activate so I had to call sprint and they activated (pushed it to my phone and it updated my radio to 2.17.651.5 So you really can’t hurt your phone if you try this :D. I have seen better call quality but nothing crazy with my data speed. (I have 3g now in places I didn't but not faster in placed I already had it).
[HTC EVO 3D] gunfromsako:
Yeah I've had to do that one time. The first time I didn't have that great offers signal where I was and had to call sprint.

Sidenote:

Also I'm pretty sure you can cancel the firmware update it searches for. Done it several times...

I'm glad this is helping some people out not sure why it works but it's helped me out a lot whenever I notice my 3g speeds goin down.
[HTC EVO 3D] Jordan4320:
It also works great to get your radio's updated and not have to un-root and update and root again. I have H-boot 1.5)
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sms2000:
Hi everyone.

I have Atrix stock 2.3.4/4.5.2A rooted. My BT device is A2DP headset and when I accidentally press any button on it this starts the multimedia player.

Is it possible to disable BT buttons outside of call? I don't need to control multimedia from BT.

Thanks.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sms2000:
Never mind. Found myself.

For rooted devices use AutoStart application.

Group named: "Media button pressed".

... disable everything there...
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 42andrising:
Thanks for that.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] KingDavid63:
My girl just got the sky rocket which we both love but she's getting pissed and thinking about returning it.. It's stock and rooted, and on att. It works fine at home on wifi, but as soon as we leave the house her call outs don't go through her calls in aren't coming in. Her data rarely works. It has like two or three bars at the time also.. Has anybody else experienced this? Maybe sim problems or should I flash custom rom?
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] demandarin:
I was browsing xda general section and came across this thread. Its been proven to fix android devices with poor GPS reception and actually turn them into having great reception even on cloudy days, bad weather, etc.. For the people who've been testing different GPS files n stuff, this might be something you might want to try out. All you need is root n root explorer and just follow the directions exactly. THIS method supposedly one of the reasons alot of users turned their desire HD phone with piss poor GPS reception into the exact opposite. Some different devices been tested and rhetorically should work for all Android devices. ITS said to even make the signal even stronger. So I'd think it'd be worth a shot to those who GPS is important feature to them.

Don't say I ain't never think of y'all..lol.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1239713

Try it out n report back here on if it works or not. It might just work considering last update already improved GPS somewhat for some users.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] HuskerWebhead:
Don't think this will work. Before ICS the Prime did use the gps.conf file, but with ICS it no longer uses it. There was already a thread modifying this file. Worked great in Honeycomb....no effect in ICS.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] fenom60:
before on honeycomb, the Navigation app does not need wifi to use, but not it require wifi on ICS, is there a fix? I want to use gps outside without wifi
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] PuroKaibil:
I had my hopes up for a minute.

Any way... I cannot test since my TP cannot be rooted. You know, no serial issue.

Good luck

The Law of the Crafty (It is my ™)
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] avinash60:
There is no gps.conf file in the /etc/ folder, or for that matter anywhere in the system directory itself.

I doubt it that this will work with ICS, or am I doing something wrong?
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] kristovaher:
Read the previous replies, according to them that method does not work with Android 4.0.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] MarkF001:
With ICS it's now done by a .xml file
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] demandarin:
OK. I must've missed that part from the other threads.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] snipercamper:
Just read this thread and was not able to find this xml! Could you please share where you've read this?
[HTC EVO 3D] HTC_Stuff:
Hi,

I'm hoping someone can help. I have a HTC EVO 3d on Sprint. Whenever I am roaming on another carriers network my data speeds drop considerably (Usually around 125 kbps down) Previously I had a HTC Touch Pro and the data speeds while roaming were fairly comparable to the Sprint network. Can I do anything to my phone to allow for faster data speeds while roaming onto another carrier? Thanks in advance for your help!
[HTC EVO 3D] oohaylima:
Only way to do that is change over to the 00001 or 11115 PRL.
[HTC EVO 3D] thebeast614:
while roaming, your phone switches over to Verizon's network and they only allow 1X data speeds, as opposed to actual 3G...the only way you can get 3G while roaming is switching your PRL over to 11115 or 00001 (i recommend 11115...sprint wont flag you)...i would search around for how to do it
[Motorola Droid Bionic] Bfitz26:
So I have been using blur since the day I got it but wanted to see if there was any ics Fish stuff and there and I found this just kind of curious on if you guys ate using alternates or stick w stock launches I love it my self keep in mind its still in beta

https://market.android.com/details?id=net.qihoo.launcher.theme.JgvIfjiqLOyeLxg
[Motorola Droid Bionic] eraursls1984:
Go launcher, before that I used launcher pro plus
[Motorola Droid Bionic] Santinelli:
I've kind of stuck with the blur launcher actually, but I DO use the Go Launcher on my Tab 7, because it is way better than what Samsung was shipping...

Go's a great launcher, with some great plugins. I believe the underlying engine is ADW....
[Motorola Droid Bionic] Bfitz26:
Give this one a whirl its still in Chinese to start but I really like this one used to like adw ex but after update it became dumb IMO after it loads it converts to English kind of a mix of miuu and adw and has custom lock screens built in
[Motorola Droid Bionic] smokedkill:
If you want your phone to look like an iPhone, there is the espier launcher. Its not my every day launcher but I have it to show iPhone people that I can make my phone look just like there's but I'm not stuck with my phone looking like everyone else's excluding the wallpaper.

I personally use go launcher but used launcher pro and adw launcher in the past. I havent used a stock launcher in a very long time.
[XPERIA X8 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tohno:
hi all ,

my phone is having some battery drain issues ...when i use GXP v22 the battery drain 1% everty minute in standby ..no battery in just 2 hours with GDX it last only 10hours

even when i full wiped , clear dalvik , wipe battery stats the battery still dies to quickly ...

so what would you do?

oh ya i got this rather odd problem the battery went standby for about 4hours ..the battery was 75% and still is ..but then when you use like 1 minute it drop another 1% ..why?

will the launcher be he culprit? i use launcher 360 ..

i off everthing , 3g ,0% brightness , no haptic , no wifi , no bluetooth use silent etc...
[XPERIA X8 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BuT_TeR:
flash the other rom after flashing gdx without full wipe.. hope it works ...
[XPERIA X8 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shark221:
Try another "Rom" i guess it's not the launcher but the rom itself, try XGin 6.2 it has a great batt. life. been using it for over 2 weeks now and i'm pretty happy with the battery life.

wifi always on, calling, texting, media streaming, brightness set @ 70%, surfing and my batt last for about 1day 7hrs..
[XPERIA X8 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tohno:
will it help if i give it some time ? maybe a week or 2 ?
[XPERIA X8 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] codfreak:
I don´t think so.

But that battery drain IS NOT NORMAL, I normally get beetween 24h and 48h of without charging, sometimes even more, and less when I use Wi-Fi or play 3D games.

There´s a battery calibration app on the market:

You charge you phone, an when it´s at 100% you click a button and then the app wipes your battery stats.

You can also set an alarm that rings when the battery is on 100%.
[XPERIA X8 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] B.Jay:
GingerDX v022 on Stock Kernel, smartass governor (default scaling values of 122->600 MHz)

With WiFi and 3G turned OFF the battery drain is 1% in ~2.5-3 hours (phone idle).

With 3G turned on and WiFi turned off the battery drain (almost full reception) is 1% every 4.5 minutes!!! (~7 hours before the battery dies)

With WiFi turned on and 3G turned off the battery drain is 1% every 15-20 minutes (phone just sitting there causing the usual traffic of Gmail, Talk, Sync).

Try to set your phone to a comparable configuration (no idea if GXP has a CPU Governor setting - in GDX it's in CyanogenMod Settings) and try to replicate the test ...

From the "with GDX it last only 10hours" you wrote it sounds like your phone is constantly connected to WiFi or 3G (and maybe having download/upload traffic going on - therefore increasing the power consumption).

EDIT:

Also note that overclocking (as I recall I spotted a overclock thread of yours) will chew the juice out of your battery at a way faster pace.

Keep in mind that the values may differ depending on the GSM/3G reception ... the weaker the signal, the more power the phone needs to apply to communicate with the tower. If you're in an area where the reception is poor you shouldn't wonder about the battery getting eaten.

As a last resort, keep an eye on what applications you have running in the background. The more crap you got running, the more bat drain you're going to have when processes are fighting over CPU time.
[XPERIA X8 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tohno:
NONO i never on wifi / 3G / bluetooth / GPS ..cause of the poor battery i tried my best to save as much battery as possible ...but in no use =( i cosntantly use task killers and i use smartass governer i think i will try stormvix ..oh! and starting my phone eats about 20% each time i does it ..is this normal?
[XPERIA X8 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tohno:
i tried the battery calibration app ..doesn't do jack =(
[XPERIA X8 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tohno:
should i pcc my phone? and redo everything
[XPERIA X8 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] B.Jay:
"starting my phone" translates into what ... ?

Turning it on (from being powered off) and letting it boot up results in 20% loss of battery charge?

That's NOT normal at all ... your charge should lose 1% at best if it was already close to going down by a percent.

Using the phone for a phone call makes it lose 20% battery charge?

Well, that entirely depends on the length of the call and the reception. Going down 20% would be about... hmmm... 1.5h talking time (estimated from the top of my head)?

At any rate ... a rapid loss of charge like your 10 hours while the phone just idles around twiddling thumbs and not being connected to WiFi or 2/3G is not normal no matter how you look at it. EDIT: Unless you overclock sky-high and running the performance governor which would keep the CPU fully clocked no matter what's currently going on.
[XPERIA X8 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tohno:
starting in the sense like restarting eg entering cwm / xrec ...i flashed back to stock now ...gonna do it all again .. i knew this was too much drain i off everything even background data and i use smaratss 122 - 710 , even my brightness is 9% ...
[XPERIA X8 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] B.Jay:
Just for testing purposes to see if the bat drain stays within a sane stretch I recommend you stay with 122-600MHz.

It would also help to install some app/widget that monitors the current clock of the CPU - just to see if there's something which keeps your CPU busy and therefore running at full throttle. I recently saw something like that, I just fail to remember where and what the name of the app was ........... :(
[XPERIA X8 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tohno:
okay so i flashed to stock last night ..i on everything sync , wifi , bluetooth , data etc for 5 hours it drained only 10% surpisingly ...after 10seconds it restarted and dropped to 3% ..odd...and i fully charged my phone to 100% and left it there for about 1hour and it dropped from 100% - 86% ..any solution?
[XPERIA X8 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] B.Jay:
There are only two things left that I would consider ...

a) The circuitry monitoring the battery charge is bogus and pulling random values out of thin air (would indicate a hardware defect in the loading circuit on the motherboard).

b) Any change the guys who repaired your phone from the hard brick returned your device with a old, almost dead, battery instead of the shiny new one you had in your W8 that bricked (you know, shady retailers thinking to make a few extra bucks by selling off the battery of your dead phone as used-part replacement to earn a "little something extra")? This would closer match to the 10->3% / 100->86% jump symptoms - the battery being about dead and therefore unable to hold the charge and draining like wild.

I don't know which of these two options to favor, but I would give "b" a 51% chance over "a".

EDIT: Stay with the Stock ROM and complain with either the repair shop or SE as the drain problem can be reproduced any given time. This should actually be covered through warranty as the original phone wasn't that old, and the repair is somewhat unrelated. The battery should at least last for two years before you should observe major degrades.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] gottria:
Running Calks 2.8.1 and decided to use the stock email app for works exchange and I'm having a hard time seeing the emails. It's gray on black once they are read, I remember seeing the same one with black on white and it was much easier to read
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] oddlou:
Is this what you're looking for? http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1418444
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ztm.000:
A lot of people are buzzing about changes to Google's privacy policies. From my understanding, they pool all of your Google things together to make the Google experience a little more streamlined. I looked at my Google dashboard and saw no surprises, and am completely fine with everything I saw there. A lot of sited like Gizmodo, Washington Post, etc, are claiming that this is a downward move for Google, and that it portrays corporate evil. They claim (and users who post in comments) that they're going to rid themselves of everything Google... why?

Am I missing something?

I love Google, I love their free services, I love their phones, I love Android. I can't just quit it all like these websites are saying people should.

Now, I don't fall in line with others or follow, for lack of a better term, but I feel like I'm missing something very large.

Google has access to my searches. Emails. Contacts.

Google can see my phones, what apps I download, where I am via Google Maps, etc.

Google knows who I am as a human.

This doesn't bother me, but I feel like it should. Please tell me what I'm missing, and tell me why its bad that they have access to all these things. Because right now I'm OK with that fact. Who am I? Why am I so important to them that they're looking at me out of the millions and millions of other people using their services, all equal with me?

Please help me understand this.

Sent from a yakju GSGN
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] PolyOlefin:
Immediately following your post, I went to Gizmodo to read their article about Google's privacy changes (Google's Broken Promise: The End of "Don't Be Evil").

Being an occasional Gizmodo reader, I was surprised to see the moderator's reaction to the comments below the article. He used some pretty foul language and insults, very unbecoming of a Gizmodo employee.

Most of the commenters' quips seem to be questioning the sensationalism of the article, usually defending Google's stance. The majority of the comments are actually just backlash against the moderator, who in turn threatened bans against commenters whose opinions collided with his own.

I'm a die-hard Lifehacker fan... but it seems the Gawker network needs to clean house and hire some professionals.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Stadsport:
I agree. I do enjoy reading some Gawker sites, but they're getting really *****y and obnoxious lately.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ztm.000:
So to the subject, should we be worried?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] PolyOlefin:
Doesn't this fall to a matter of trust?

Admittedly, I'm firmly in the Google camp when compared to the spectrum of its competitors. However, I'm also innately suspicious of corporate business, as their loyalty to profit trumps any consideration for their users/employees (Google is better than most).

They explicitly state they're not selling your information to third-parties; it's being used to improve their own services, which any company would do. Facebook is doing similar things, but people aren't going to abandon Facebook. As long as Google remains an anonymizing proxy between myself and other companies, I'm fine with it.

Ultimately, the average user doesn't have anything worth keeping secret from Google's algorithms. What's that? Google's ad-targeting you for dog collars because you posted a YouTube video of your basset hound swimming in a pool? Nobody cares.

In a Big Brother, "1984" sense, I suppose you could argue it's a slippery slope. Again, doesn't it boil down to individual trust? There are certain companies I trust more than others, and Google ranks pretty high on my list.

Am I being naive? Is my bias keeping their transgressions out of the light? Perhaps we need a Google-hater to weigh in for some perspective.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Celeras:
I don't know, should you? Do you care that data Google took from you in Gmail is now being used while you're using Chrome? Because that's all that is changing.

They're not taking any additional data.

They're not removing anything.

They're taking what they already did, and applying it to all aspects of your Google accounts. IE: you'll see more similar ad's.

APOCALYPSE NIGH! Gizmodo is a joke.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] flintfirewalker:
I don't think we need to be worried.

Question is, what does Google want from us, our money they just want to sell us products. By combining data from all different Google services, they are just trying to create a profile for me, that will help them better identify what I may need, and try to sell it to us.

The problem lies with the fact that the aggregated data may become too incriminating if one has something to hide. But for me, the only fear is with that data being hacked and sold to those who like to operate above the law.

So is Google back to being evil? Nope, they never were. But they have a lot if power, and with great power, comes great responsibility.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] soulicro:
To sum it up, Google is simply taking all the information it already has of you throughout its services (Gmail, G+, YouTube, etc) and letting these services share this information between themselves.

Google is probably the only company I trust with my privacy. I suggest you take a look at Google's Policies & Principles page, where they list the new (and current) policy and how it affects you. Don't be afraid to read it, they're not hiding behind legal mumbo jumbo, they make it very easy to read and understand.

I'm pretty sure all of these sites are making a huge deal out of this because Google has consistently been pumping out successful services one after the other, and they're using this policy change to:

1) Get pageviews, and thus money, and

2) Its "fun" to try and see the "perfect kid around the block" fail.

Also, Gawker Media f* sucks and has for a very long time now.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] lucasmalaguti:
We are not in position to point fingers and take positions. Nothing we know (at least for sure) about what google do with our data.

We just cant forget one thing: When the product is free, YOU are the product.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Aridon:
Google could be a government front for a division of project echelon and I wouldn't care. I love their products and they give everything away for free with the exception of adwords. Win win for consumers when a company raises the bar and doesn't charge you for it.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Kalavere:
The Google’s Broken Promise: The End of "Don’t Be Evil" article reminds me why I only ever visit Gizmodo a handful of times a year.

I don't care what Google do with my info if I'm honest, as long as they aren't selling it, and I'm not getting my inbox spammed with 100's of 'Canadian Pharmacy' e-mails I really couldn't give a ****.