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[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] GpsPasSion:
432bps is above the 3G Max of 384kbps, so I'm guessing you're in fact in 3G+ already even if the logo isn't there. I get about the same speed with the logo on.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] VidMan:
Could installing the Clean 3G Icon cab have screwed things up?
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] gregross:
on the Tilt - the default icon for everything is the "E" - and i believe HSDPA may be off by default - there is a file call HSDPASwitch.exe in the \Windows directory - run this and see if the check box is checked - if not check it - not sure how to enable the 3G icon .. yet
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] rmcalhany:
Not in mine. Anyone else see this? FYI, I have 3G icon on ALL the time. Well, once yesterday I saw something else (I think it was E). I have never seen H and I've never seen speeds above 200kbps.

And unless I'm wrong, HSDPA is in a lot of the bay area. Any way to determine for sure if HSDPA is in the areas I frequent? Map?

Robert
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] gregross:
you have a tilt? is "show all files" checked in file explorer? did you say you installed a 3g icon?
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] rmcalhany:
Now that was a good post. Good amount of info. No I hadn't checked "show all files." When I did that, I saw the file you were mentioning. HSDPA was checked.

I had not installed any 3G icon. It's just always been showing 3G (except briefly E over the weekend). Never seen H in 3 days. Never been above 200kbps.

R
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] gregross:
didn't intend to sound flip ....

strange - i haven't seen a 3g icon - but see H all the time - but i have done some tweaking - and enabled HSDPA as described above.

sounds like you are in a 3g area most of the time - hopefully you get HSDPA as well.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] gregross:
just reread the post - noticed you said HSDPA was checked - Not sure why you don't get faster speeds - have seen > 1000k

there is also an "enable HSDPA icon" registry setting - don't know of HSDPASwitch sets this or not - i will take a look for it -would at least let you know if the phone thinks it is in HSDPA

g
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] URPREY:
To restore the "H" icon when HSDPA data is in use, there's a registry tweak - thanks to HiwayFuzz for the tip:

HKLM\SOFTWARE\OEM\RIL and set EnableHSDPAIcon to 1
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] gregross:
The following key may enable the HSDPA icon ...

HKLM\Software\OEM\RIL\EnableHSDPAIcon

set value to 1
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] gregross:
for the record the key enables/disbles HSDPA

HKLM\Software\OEM\RIL\DisH

0 - enabled

1 - disabled

g
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] ruddywarrior:
Thank you so much for the info! This just made my day and took my DL speeds from 100-300 to 700-900 on broadbandreports.com AND the H icon works now.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] vpoet:
Really, truly: Thank you, gregross.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] doug0365:
gregross

I was able to find the EnableHSDPAIcon on my Tilt's registry and set to enable but I can't find the other you mentioned HKLM\Software\OEM\RIL\DisH. Do I need to create it?

Thanks for your help
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] gregross:
strange - maybe running HSDPASwitch for the firs time creates it ....????
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] ZzFDKzZ:
There's a tweak for the Kaiser to enable HSDPA.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] pmow:
1. Bought Tilt. 3G icon, but no H. Decent speeds.

2. HSDPASwitch unchecked (yes it was checked by default).

3. HSDPASwitch checked.

4. Rebooted

5. H icon appears. Still same speeds (~270kbps)

I'm going to have to bring my 8525 back online for a quick test...because usually I get 800-900kbps. Still enough to stream video...but still. Tethering will suck. I wonder if the isp.cingular APN would be faster?
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] ruddywarrior:
I've been using my phone for a couple days after running the HSDPA switch app and checking the registry keys now and noticed a few things. With the HSDPA icon key enabled the H icon comes on whenever data is being downloaded whether I am getting HSDPA sppeds or not and even when I'm not in an HSDPA area. To test this I downloaded something while I was in an edge area and the icon still switched to H and then back to E when the download finished. Maybe it's just me but lately my data speeds have really been up and down throughout the day. Sometimes I will have full service in a 3G area and pull really slow speeds (60-100K), other times I will have two bars of 3G service in the same location and pull 750-900. My Blackjack seems to be much more consistent. Maybe AT&T is still working on getting their device profile for the Tilt just right....:)
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] d12ag0n49:
Thank you for this reg tweak. My data speed is now at 2.2 megabits per second.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] aniv:
Thanks for the tweaks, consistent 2.2 mbit across various speed test sites :D Was getting 120k/s earlier...

Anyone knows if this kills the battery life?
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] jallenclark:
i used to get the H icon but today i am not at all. i am still averaging speeds of 500k

any ideas why i cant get the H to show up?
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] maryjos:
I'm having the same problem, used to get the H all the time, but not anymore. And this is in the same location so can't blame it on that. The registry key mentioned isn't in there for me either, should I try adding it? Where does it go?
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] maryjos:
Ah, searching for "HSDPA" I was able to find the key that toggles it on my Tilt. It's strange that I had the HSDPA turned on, but didn't get proper speed without the icon registry key switched on. Thanks for the help!
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] plusdevin:
Still can't get speeds above 350 kbps

I enabled HSDPA and the icon, and I have the H icon and decent signal strength, but I cannot get the faster speeds above 350 kbps that others have reported.

I have a new account with AT&T. Could this affect how my account is provisioned and explain the speeds? Or is the just a function of cell tower and usage. (I am in downtown Seattle.)

I also tried switching to using isp.cingular but I cannot make a connection there.

Any suggestions are most welcome.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] jallenclark:
my speed varies a lot based on the time I run the test

I would say if you are getting 300ish most of the time everything is setup correctly. Try running a test during a non-peak time with full signal.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] cmh1085:
HSDPA Registry Fix

Can someone direct on the proper way to change the registry key. I am using Task Manager and I searched for "HDSPA" and received two hits. On is ENABLEHDSPA and it is located in the OEM/RIL file. Now what as I can't open that folder and can't find a proper place to switch the key.

I am getting speeds of <200kbs. Totally unpleasant.

Thanks
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] techiegirl:
Are you on AT&T? I found that my speed was faster after I called C/S and had them put UMTS Enabled on my account.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] cactusboy19:
I got 850 kbps on dsl reports.

i always have the 3G icon on. but when I start downloading the big H shows up

I used the kaiser tweak program to turn on HSDPA
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] Nevermore:
I live in the Bronx and we only have Edge here. Sometimes I travel to White Plains, NY where they have 3G. My icon goes back and forth between 3G and H, but never stays H. Speeds are about 800k, nowhere near your 2.2. Sucks, but it's still better than the 150k in the Bronx, Yonkers, and Scarsdale. Stop neglecting us, AT&T!
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] jallenclark:
do you guys just run a test every so often to monitor your speeds? are you tethering to monitor them? is there a site formatted for mobile phone speed testing? is there a program than monitors or checks your internet speed?

I have ran some tests on mine on some of the websites, but I can run two of them back to back and get a huge difference in speed.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] MikeChannon:
I tend to use this one:

http://www.dslreports.com/mspeed?jisok=1

Mike
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] jallenclark:
do you tether and run it or run it from yourr mobile phone?
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] cactusboy19:
+1

no tethering. run from the phone using IE
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] peter7:
Hi there - I can use HSDPA on my Kaiser too - but ! I only see the HSDPA when I`m locked into data service - what I do want is that when ´`, in the normal phone mode that it not only shows the 3g but the H - does anyone know how to get this ???????????????

Many thanks in advance

myrin
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] TroyBoy30:
It was my understanding that HSDPA was already active on the tilt, it just does not show the H icon by default, it only shows the 3G icon.

My speeds have been the same for over a year. Way back since I got my V3xx.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] cincy1020:
Hi:

First let me say Thanks so much Gregoss.

I made the changes mentioned, and I do now have the H icon. What's strange is that the H icon is always on, I have yet to see it change, and have been all over town. I think it's pretty unlikely that I always have hsdpa. I certainly don't always have hsdpa on my Treo 750. At home, prior to enabling the H icon at times, I had 3G, at other times it would switch to Edge, now it is always on H. It is on H even when I get one bar of signal.

Is it possible for the H icon to be "stuck"?

Has anyone else experienced this?

I have done several soft resets and the H is still there :confused:

Thanks!
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] rsolomon:
Yes, I *think* it's an artifact of the stock AT&T ROM, that just changing the one registry key doesn't give the desired behavior. I've not pursued it, but it seems like folks on various cooked ROMs see the correct H behavior - my indicator would stick just like yours, so I turned it right back off again.

Richard
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] URPREY:
My guess is that you're in an area with HSUPA. Do a speed test for upload speed and check. If so, that's why you're seeing H all the time.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] cincy1020:
Hi:

Thanks for your reply. My speeds range from the mid 400s to low 800s.

Would this be indicative of HSUPA?

Thanks again.

PS: Is it possible to receive good internet signal, but poor phone signal? Because I have noticed that at times I have no bars, and poor phone quality, but still have 700 or 800kbit/sec on net.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] MartyList:
I have a Tilt with the original AT&T ROM, and the icon switches between H and E a couple times a day, in the Denver area. I don't think I've ever seen the H icon at 1 bar, seems like it switches to E after H gets down to 2 bars. Before tweaking the EnableHSDPAIcon registry value it never showed H, only 3G.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] cincy1020:
Hmmm, how odd after tweak, i never see 3G anymore. Weird :confused:
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] slick316:
On my AT&T Tilt, I have never seen the H, it was always 3G. It was after changing ROM's that I get the H now.

However, I still get the same speeds. Using the speed test at dslreports.com, I get 650-900, normally 800-900. I got the same speeds with the OEM ROM also.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] cincy1020:
Okay, it's official. Right now, I was on zero bars, I did a speed test, and it came 117kbit/s, at this exact same time it was still showing H.

So I guess the H is definitely inaccurate.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] cincy1020:
EDIT: Hmmm, how odd. Maybe I was on HSDPA the whole time, at one point this evening, finally, the E appeared. When I tried to go online, it was VERY slow, it was so slow, I wasn't even able to run a speed check on it. After a few minutes of this, the H reappeared, and voila, I am back at 583 kbits/s, but odlly a few minutes later was down to 293 kbit/s and still on H.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] Jamitilt:
this might help

Download the Kaiser tweaks cab file usualy on the first page. Its used so much it never fall off the first page. all the instructions are there for HSDPA. It is a must have program for the TILT (Kaiser)
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] wisniak:
Hmmmmm.... I have HSDPA, but cant browse with PIE....

This is very strange.

I can pick and send emails while on HSDPA, but can't browse directly with PIE, nor trough my RSS readers' links.

After entering the desired URL, I receive a message (bottom left corner) " connecting" - and that's it.

But when I switch to Wifi, I have no problems at all.... PIE works perfectly.

Any ideas?

Thank you.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] MartyList:
I've seen this twice just recently on my Tilt, I don't remember it happening in the first couple months that I owned it. I don't know what the problem is, but when I turned on flight mode and then turned it off again (turned the radio off and on again) the problem went away.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] staffmac:
No HSDPA in NYC

I have the tilt with the original At&T rom & have never noticed the H. today i was looking under file explorer & noticed a HSDPA . exe icon hidden waaay deep into the windows file. I activated it but still no H... ill post back after going into the city. Any one in NYC get an H on the tilt
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] cincy1020:
Hi:

If that doesn't work for you, Kaiser Tweaks will turn on HSDPA easily. That's what I used, and it worked perfectly.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] URPREY:
HSDPA is enabled by default on the Tilt but the icon doesn't change to an H to reflect this. There's a regedit floating around to enable the H but it doesn't make a difference as far as speed goes.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] anubus12:
I am a Hermes owner as well. On my Hermes, the icon shows '3G' most of the time until the phone needs to download. At that point, IF HSDPA is available, then the icon changes to 'H' then back to '3G' when download is complete. However, on the Kaiser, when the HSDPA switch is enabled, it never shows '3G'. Always 'H' wherever it's available, then 'E' everywhere else.

Why doesn't it scale back to 3G at all? I would rather the phone be in 3G mode than H all the time to reduce battery drain? Is this right?
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] anubus12:
No one has this problem or know the answer?
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] URPREY:
I already answered this several posts above yours:
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] schmusebaer1313:
the tilt has hsdpa turned off by default. people from att can tell you what they want because they are not trained to know the devices. you need to find a program called kaiser tweek. that will prove to you that hsdpa has been deactivated. once the 3G logo has turned to H. you will notice a big speed difference. att and co doesnt want its customers to know that. i dont know why. but trust me. i did the same thing with mine and now its fast as hell.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] URPREY:
That's not correct. HSDPA is enabled by default on the Tilt, but AT&T just disabled the H indicator.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] chaosniner:
HSDPA disappeared?

I'm using an AT&T Tilt.

Up until a few days ago, I was using a ROM assembled by one of the Xda-Developer admins. I'm embarassed to say I can't for the life of me remember what it was, except that I think it had 'XDA' in the name and the author's avatar has a tie fighter.

With that ROM, I was getting fantastic HSDPA speeds in San Francisco. A few weeks ago, I noticed that I wasn't getting my little "H" anymore. In fact, my phone wouldn't see any signal in areas where there should be full 3G, and I decided to upgrade my ROM in case there was an issue with the radio.

I upgraded to Dutty's latest, and here in LA I briefly saw the "H" flash by. However, I'm having horrible radio troubles, wherein my phone will seek for minutes at a time before finding full EDGE coverage.

I *know* there's HSDPA in San Francisco. I got it for months. What's going on? I've tried every possibility in the "Band" tab under the Phone config. I've tried wap.cingular, isp.cingular, turning the proxy setting off and on, enabling and disabling HSDPA through the control panel, enabling and disabling the display of the "H" icon, and rebooting countless times. I get EDGE data, but nothing more.

Should I try yet another ROM? Is this even a ROM issue? Any suggestions would be appreciated. I've searched for HSDPA in this forum but most people are simply confused by the lack of the icon in some ROMs.

Thanks!
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] JimmyMcGee:
See if you can try another "Radio"
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] chaosniner:
Do you think the radio is the problem? Thing is, I was getting lightning-fast HSDPA for several months with the last radio I was using. It's only when HSDPA suddenly vanished that I tried another. Could AT&T have altered something with the way HSDPA works out here on the west coast? I haven't dropped the phone or altered anything else in software, so I can't imagine it developed a problem on its own.

Do you have any suggestions for a radio that I should try? Thanks!
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] chaosniner:
Update

Update: Stopped by AT&T here in San Francisco, and they took a look. I had a non-AT&T ROM that (for whatever reason) called the GPRS modem "GPRS" rather than "GPRS, 3G" which confused them, but they were (surprisingly) very cool about looking at my non-standard Tilt.

Unfortunately, they also had no idea what was wrong. They set me up with a new SIM card and suggested I call warranty replacement -- after removing my custom ROM, that is.

Meanwhile, I've downgraded back to the stock shipping AT&T ROM that came with my Tilt, and I'm seeing the same behavior as before: data on EDGE, but absolutely nothing from 3G. If my phone is in 3G mode, I also cannot place or receive any calls.

Using radio 1.27.12.11 and the 1.57.502.2 ROM from:

RUU_Kaiser_CINGULAR_WWE_.exe. It's dated 08/25/2007.

Last chance, XDA -- any ideas? Otherwise I'm going to remove HardSPL and take this poor thing in for a warranty replacement tomorrow.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] chaosniner:
By the way

For what it's worth, the phone works fine when it's not in 3G mode; I'm running Dutty's WM6.1_5.2.19700_Hybrid_V2_1_65.14.06_CubeV2 and I get the usual:

3G mode: gets the 3G logo on the antenna with decent signal, nothing works (no incoming/outgoing calls, no data because it refuses to connect to wap.cingular

Non-3G mode: gets full EDGE with full bars, everything works (incoming/outgoing calls, identical data connection to wap.cingular connects without any problems)

Is it possible for just the 3G portion of the radio to get screwed up? Has anyone else encountered this?
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MeltdownSpectre:
Hi everyone,

Purchased a used GSM M8 a few days ago, it was carrier branded to Telstra AU. I unlocked the bootloader and got S-OFF through Sunshine.

Changed the MID to 0P6B1000 and the CID to HTC__001.

Flashed 6.12.401.4 and it has been running flawlessly except for the crazy battery consumption.

I converted to GPE to see if it'd make a difference, it did, not a big one, but the battery was life comparatively better. I'm already loving stock Android on my Nexus 6, so I decided to stick with Sense 7 on the M8, however the battery life is horrible.

Stats show nothing irregular, I'll post screenshots when I've unplugged the phone from a full charge.

Since the M8 is my secondary phone, it is barely used, and all battery saving things have been done. Location services, Wi-Fi, BT are off. Facebook is disabled and most of the google apps are disabled too except for Play Store and GMail.

Only apps installed are the stock ones and WhatsApp + Tapatalk.

I unplugged the phone at 9:00 AM today (charged with Tronsmart QC 2.0), everything was off. It is now 3:22 PM, with 10 minutes of WhatsApp at 11 AM and nothing after that. The battery is now 59%

Cell standby seems to be consuming most of the battery at 51% usage, with Phone Idle at 42%, and Wi_Fi at 7%.

If it makes a difference, the phone has a foreign SIM in it and it is on Roaming right now.

All replies would be appreciated.

P.S: I've tried re-flashing, factory reset, you name it. Nothing works.
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MeltdownSpectre:
Anyone?
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] redpoint73:
Flash how? You just flashed a ROM, or did you update the firmware (hboot, radio, etc.) also?

If you didn't update the firmware, doing so may help.

When a WiFi network is available, turning off WiFi will cause

more

battery drain. Even though you've turned off most synced apps, you haven't turned them all off. So anything that needs the internet will use the cell network, instead of WiFi (and cell network uses more power).

Although, for times when you are not connected to a WiFi network, it indeed makes sense to turn off WiFi.
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MeltdownSpectre:
I flashed the 6.12.401.1 firmware first, then I flashed the RUU zip file. Wiped data and cache through recovery and rebooted.

I think that's the right way to do it.... right?

So I should keep Wi-Fi on then?

Since I can't use cellular data on the M8 because it has a foreign SIM and it'd cost me and arm and a leg just to pay for data.
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] redpoint73:
Yup, that's about as thorough and correct as can be.

If you have cell data turned off (which you didn't mention before), then you are correct that WiFi also off would be the lowest drain.

So you essentially have no data, except when you switch on WiFi to use the phone?

All I can think, is that whatever network your foreign SIM is using to roam, has poor reception, and causing cell standby to be so high. I'm not sure if there is much you can do about this.
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MeltdownSpectre:
Oops, sorry about that. :P

Yup, when I turn Wi-Fi off, there is no active data connection on it.

I think it is the poor reception thing is causing it, whenever I check it usually only has 1-2 bars, rarely 3 bars.

Another question I wanted to ask was, if the battery was badly treated by the previous owner, could it's time be up? Suppose he didn't charge it with the correct voltage charger or charged it at inappropriate intervals, could that reduce the life of the battery?
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xdavidpx:
Could be the battery need recalibration. One way to tell is let the phone drain to the point it will turn off and see how long your phone last on the last 5% of charge. If it take awhile to die then you will need to recalibrate the battery.

To recalibrate recharge the phone to about 10%. Turn the phone off. Then hold power and volume + and - keep holding until the phone reset about 4 times. After that charge the phone to 100% and use normally.

Hope this help.
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] talpes:
Since I think that you have root you also could try Greenify but the pro version with xposed. Helped me a lot with battery life since BT is always on because of my smart watch & headphones.

Hope this helped.