yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Shield Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mrpitou:
Hello everyone,

My wifi router is on level 0 of my house. If I'm upstairs, I have a ****ty bandwith. I tried to do like 5 speedtests in a row, alternate with 5 speedtests with my smartphone (OnePlus One).

My ISP bandwith is 10Mb/s

The speed with my tablet is stuck below 1Mb/s upstairs, opposite to my smartphone results ceiling at 9-10Mb/s.

But when I'm downstairs and up to 5 meters aways from my router I can have that speed on the tablet. Different locations in the house downstairs give me different results. The more I'm far from the router, the less the speed is.

Any idea of what I could do to have the same bandwith anywhere at home ?

Am I condemned to buy a wifi 5Ghz repeter (currently my router is on 2.4Ghz), as I have read that the tablet was designed to work flawlessly with 5Ghz wifi ?

Am I alone with this problem ?

Is this a faulty design problem from nvidia ?

PS : I'm alone on my wifi channel in the neighboorhood, so no congestion is possible.
[Shield Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Niii4:
I'd say, the GHz have nothing to do with it. Rather it may be a structural issue. If you cover the Shield side, the one without the front camera!, you will have a weaker reception. So if you hold the Shield in portrait mode the front camera should be on the bottom for better reception.
[Shield Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mrpitou:
So that means everyone is having the problem I have and nobody pointed it before ?
[Shield Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Niii4:
No. It's not a problem but common. If there are lots of walls between your handset and the router the reception drops. Worse, if you cover the interior antennas.
[Shield Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mrpitou:
So why does my OnePlus one has no bandwidth drops :( ? I think it is a big problem if my smartphone gets full bandwidth from my wifi and my tablet does not.
[Shield Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Niii4:
Maybe you don't cover the antennas of your OnePlus one? Or its microwaves output are set much much higher to penetrate lots of walls. Downside, unhealthy for the human body in the long run.

I, for instance, rearranged my router to have a better reception. Only one wall. Hence excellent speed. :)
[Shield Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mrpitou:
Ok did some more testing with my PC and this app to test my WLAN speed.

Just above the router, I'm @ 80Mb/s ... going 5 meters away and more drops the speed to 1Mb/s

Gonna invest in a wifi repeater :(
[Shield Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Niii4:
Keep in mind, there is metal structure inside the ceilings, which is worse than just walls.

Bottom line, either you get WiFi repeaters or a long cable to set up the router on the same floor.
[Security Discussion] |Night|:
Hey,

I sent my non-rooted and encrypted Z5 Premium on service last month, I was intern given a brand new phone, when i check account activity on among other services Google, where device shows up last synced in the US and prior to that in Netherlands where as i reside in Norway.

Does this mean that Sony have a backdoor to encryption? or is there some other explanation to this?

Attached is device activity for the phone in question(two google accounts), it was replaced by service center September, and remanined dormant untill those two showed up.

* Note this is a repost since i posed firt in wrong section which has been reported and asked purged.
[Yu Yunique Questions & Answers] ankitj1611:
Hello

As the title suggests.Does Yu Yunique/Yu Yunique+ supports 64GB SD CARD?on the website it says 32GB.

has anyone tried with 64GB??
[Yu Yunique Questions & Answers] droidenforcer:
y don't u use card reader ?

and i saw ur question on Yu forums also and i was laughing like hell lol

it won't support it tho
[MX Player] kousuke_orautan:
The program crashes everytime i want to play any video. Nothing works.

Other video players work perfectly.

Any help? :(((
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Questions & Answers] j2gifted:
I've been searching for days and can't find an answer to my questions so I'll just ask.

I currently have an S4 with tmobile. It's stock rooted with Fenny's rom and Unlimited Tether Mod. The phone is realiable but i'd like to upgrade.

Since the Note7 has gone up in flames, I've been looking at the only 3 [seemingly] viable options which are the Galaxy S7 [not the edge], HTC M10, and mayve LG v20.

I've been a Samsung customer for years, so I guess I'd lean toward GS7. The only thing that keeps me from pulling the trigger on ANY new phone is whether or not I'll be able to root it and have an UNLIMITED HotSpot Mod. I can't seem to find a definitive answer as to whether thats a possibility for the GS7... is it able to be done? And for that matter, can it be done on the HTC M10 or LG v20... or any other great quality phone available right now [it seems the pickings are slim].

If I can't find a new phone that can do this, I guess I'll be sticking with my S4.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Questions & Answers] j2gifted:
I'm still searching but can't find the answers I need. Nobody has any input?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Questions & Answers] xena499:
I asked the same question yesterday, and not even one response....

I understand WifI Router (Root) by fabio works, bought it, and it didnt work for me. I emailed him, and he emailed me back promptly with support, asking me for my ABN settings, so I''m sure it works.

Unfortunately, I unrooted before getting support on my settings, so im waiting here to find out if anybody has rooted a stable PK1 ??? In my case it was not stable, overheated, lagged and eventually after 6 days boot-lopped. (confirmed governor's set to interactive) , and flashed the v15 fixes. I know it can be rooted, but seems less stable - and no clear answers here in our tmobile xda s7 little community.

While waiting for confirmation on stable PK1 root, (and I'm done experimenting), I do get full speed USB tethering in FoxFi. So this is a temporary solution until I see more answers on a stable root.

Can somebody with real success, please help ! thanks in advance !!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Questions & Answers] atrix_noob:
I use PDANet+ and works like a charm even on wifi
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Questions & Answers] xena499:
I forgot to mention my Pda.net (foxfi) was working like a charm too w/o root as well.

However , my foxfi is now handicapped thanks to Tmobile's latest policy changes.

I signed up for unlimited data (which had fine print stating 15 gigs hotspot high speed at lower priority).

First I was sand-bagged the $26 extra for unlimited hotspot on my unlimited account. Since i didnt know this was added without my approval - I removed it.

Then I noticed the new policies and the hotspot throttling.. Other users are reporting the same.

Now my foxfi is shut down to .5kbs - same as the native hotspot app. I have tried other apps with no luck with and without VPN (PIA). Foxfi works unrestricted via USB tether, and that is my current temp solution, until someone here actually verifies a stable PK1 root.

Once i know this can be achieved, I bought WiFi Router (root) and anticipate this will work, and or xtether for an unrestricted Hotspot activation around Tmobiles latest low blow.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Questions & Answers] draychi:
We got the S7 and I regret everything about it. I had 2 Note 4's in the house running CM 12.1, tethering 600 gigs per month from Tmobile with 40-75megs down like it was nothing. I want to dump these and get a OnePlus or go back to a Note 4. Just something without a BL lock, pretty much have to go international or something like OnePlus.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Questions & Answers] atrix_noob:
I use PDANet+ and dont have a problem with it, I have used more than 5gb over mobile hotspot without a problem
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Questions & Answers] xena499:
exactly ! I went note 4-->note 7--->note 7-->(cried)--->downgraded to this **** phone, ready to cry again, and dump it.

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pdanet is not the prog that provisions hotspot. If you install PDAnet+ like you state, then you know it installs another prog called FoxFi.

This has hotspot. Tmobile has done something new on their end in the last 2 weeks to throttle this to .5kbps, unless you pay $26 extra for unlimited hotspot.

This program previously worked great and doesnt require root. I could get unlimited Hotspot, and highspeed. Now, they &*@k#D us.

Are you claiming to not pay the additional $26, and still get unthrottled speeds (15-50 mbs)?

Im sorry for asking you again, since my post is looking for a workaround, not what doesn't work any longer. I can see many others with the same observations re foxfi (pdna.net), hence - never even mentioning this. Sorry for my tone, as I hope to improve my situation, and want others too as well, and do not want others to try methods known not to currently work, until and if, Foxfi updates...
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Questions & Answers] atrix_noob:
To your situation I live in Puerto Rico and have T-Mobile here.

I have only 5GB of Mobile hotspot and has not consumed it yet.

I know what Foxfi is but if you know that if you install PDANet+ if you want full version you need to buy the FoxFi key that works for FoxFi and PDANet.

Here's what I have cosumed with FoxFi and before I buyed the Key I was using my regular hotspot which consumed almost 2GB of my plan.

I dont use usbtethering and only need PDANet for my PS4.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Questions & Answers] atrix_noob:
Plus I have legally buyed the FoxFi key, I'm not using any cracked software. Sorry but if for you doesnt work then is your country thats blocking the tethering there.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Questions & Answers] xena499:
thanks for your response.

I guess i should have been clear - it is for US domestic T-mobile and Unlimited One plans. You are using a 5gig plan, your situation doesnt apply - it works. Same as the pay as you go plans in continental US.

The issue is for those of us on the UNLIMITED ONE plan that are now being throttled (90+ percent of us) Foxfi has been crippled and works no different than native hotspot.

Root will solve this, but I'm not confident in the root stability with what I have already experienced and further experimentation is a waste of my time. I hope experts in our community have got solutions that actually work....????

thanks for anyone's help in advance...
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Questions & Answers] xena499:
I wanted to report that I went back to PIA firmware, rooted and using WIfi Tether Router by Fabio (root) ($2.80) for my hotspot to get around the Tmobile throttling.

I'm using PIA VPN connected on the phone.

**In order to get VPN and WiFi tether router to work

using Wifi Tether router, you must create a new access point name, copying the tmobile settings in place, and changing the APN protocol to from IPv6 to IPv4

then save and select this new APN name as default in your phones mobile network settings.

Reboot the phone. I went from .5kbs ---> 20-50mbs.

Wifi Tether router runs slow, and hot - so this isn't as easy as using PDA.net (FoxFi) without root like before - but seems to work fine. Now, you must root to get the unlimited wifi hotspot. (For Tmobile Unlimited One accounts).

In beginning it didn't work until i made the above changes, and followed the configuration page:

for GS5/6 , but not sure this made any difference, so recommend not making any changes, until doing above.

I'm still testing the stability of root, in general, for the S7. Since my PK1 upgrade experience bad, I will stick with PIA until someone posts results with experience.

Thanks to some advice I used v15 fixes after root, and NOT the bloatware removal which might have been the culprit all along.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Questions & Answers] j2gifted:
So are there any other new phones from t mobile that currently have successful workarounds for this?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Questions & Answers] dr0ided:
I have the T-Mobile one plan and everything is unlimited.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Questions & Answers] xena499:
re: the One plan "unlimited" is a marketing ploy. The previous marketing game is called Binge. Again market to the user they are getting more, when in fact they are getting far less.

if you read the fine print you will see that unlimited = not unlimited.

plus you cannot wifi tether anymore, since they added the $26/mo premium hotspot feature. Then your unlimited to 28gigs or whatever they specify has their unlimited limit which keeps changing - also in the fine print until they start to throttle you down, as the network priority demands (ie you become lower priority if connected to a busy tower).

The OP explains how to circumvent the hotspot restrictions. T-mobile's one plan (circa Sept 1 2016), has already been changed 3 times in 3 months. Not sure how you keep customers like this.

First we had UNLIMITED. Then it was clarified to unlimited upto 28 or so gigs or whatever the top 2% of their users use. The hotspot was restricted to 15 gigs per month, and specified to be a lower network priority. In my case the hotspot was full speed. Then, they changed the policy again. No hotspot. it works throttled to .5kbs.

The brilliance in the tmobile marketing is to advertise that they are giving more, when in fact they are giving less. Amazing that users think they have unlimited data, when they dont, and obviously are not hitting the upper limits to find out. Yes, you have unlimited .5kbs when you hit the limits, and in this sense, you are unlimited which is not so bad in itself, but good luck with HD videos on your 72" 5000k display :)

I do want to point out that when I went over the limit my speed was unaffected, but don't want an account where I'm wondering what will be the story tomorrow.

I came from a sprint unlimited account I had for 12 years. Nothing changed. Unlimited was unlimited, but was very slow. T-mobile seems much faster - but unreliable, and inconsistent.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Questions & Answers] Lessycourt:
Hotspot fix for no tether hotspot plan.

Are you guys talking about bypassing tether limit or having tethering on a tmobile plan that has no tether at all? I have old plan that has unlimited no throttle but also no hotspot tether at all and want to know what phone has roms that would give me tether. I have now s7, had v20 rooted but nothing worked for tether kept getting hotspot up sell page with WiFi tether and foxfire.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Questions & Answers] dr0ided:
It shows on my T-Mobile app that I have unlimited. Never had any problems.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Questions & Answers] xDark_:
28 GBs is the soft cap. I have the truly unlimited plan (grandfathered) and I get soft capped at 22 GBs, but my app says it's unlimited.

Back when I had my 5 GB plan, the old app said unlimited too. Then I hit 5 GBs and realized they meant unlimited throttled 2G data and I had to dig through the app before stumbling upon "X/5 GBs of high speed data".

Also video streaming is limited to 480p but you already probably knew that, so yes, technically unlimited data but not really IMO.

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People like you are why we have these throttles in place ?
[Galaxy Note5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DAD12345:
(Solved) and thank you everyone!

I have a Galaxy Note 5 for tmobile. I have been running Note 7 express rom. Also I had a backup or Hell Rom.

The problem is is I went to change the DPI settings and although I made a backup I forgot to take off the fingerprint lock or possibly delete a Google account and when the phone shut down and came back on it showed a custom boot animation. The boot animation was Biohazard.

At this time I have tried to download the last 4 firmwares DOK and PDH and the phone will go as far as to accept the boot but once it gets to where it should pass it will not. The phone will let me go into download mode however it won't let me do anything from that point and tells me that the custom binary has been blocked by FRP.

And hoping someone can help me as I can't afford a new phone at this time the phone is pristine and I'd hate to see it become a paperweight I took it in to Samsung and obviously pretended like I wasn't the one who did the damage and they said that they wasn't sure what it was or what it was doing but it wasn't working so I quickly realized that I had no help there and I thought I'd ask my brothers and sisters here.

If anyone can direct me to the right software or a proper flashing tool that might be able to get past the FRP lock please let me know as I am dying here in Ohio without my phone.

Thank you in advance all
[Galaxy Note5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] obliviousmnd:
Are you saying you tried stock firmware flash to phone? Download the stock firmware from samsung official website and flash through ODIN. If it fails try a different cable, try a different USB port (sometimes 2.0 and 3.0 fail for unknown reasons), try using windows 7 instead of 8, 8.1, and 10 or vice versa. Use a different version of ODIN. These are all common ODIN issues that cause flash to fail. Should accept a flash of completely stock firmware.

Let me know what you come up with.
[Galaxy Note5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DAD12345:
Thank you, I will try those
[Galaxy Note5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DAD12345:
Great news ! I found a photo of my settings on accident and was able to factory reset with Smart Switch. Tha k you for your time helping me.
[Galaxy Note5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] obliviousmnd:
Awesome i glad everything worked out for you. May want to edit title to [solved] or something
[Xiaomi Mi 5s Questions & Answers] black_hawk1990:
Dear fellas,

I have a problem updating to the new Global ROM Version: V8.0.1.0.MBGMIDG (MIUI8) [Global]

I currently have on my device Version: V8.0.10.0.MBGCNDI (MIUI8) [Chinese - Stable]

When I try to use the updater app, it gives a message: "Can't verify update - Couldn't verify update package"

I looked around in Mi forums, there were tutorials to flash my device using fastboot and adb, I tried following instructions but things didn't work out as they explained. (those tutorials are for other devices).

I also tried using the Mi PC Suite app, but my device isn't recognized by this software. I tried uninstalling drivers through device manager (it was under portable devices), and then connecting to the Mi PC Suite after resetting my device, it stopped at 10% and gave a message that I should update my device for the app to detect it!

Can anybody help me updating my device? I am a noob, and I am afraid to brick my device.
[Xiaomi Mi 5s Questions & Answers] ermacwins:
Have you unlocked your bootloader?
[Xiaomi Mi 5s Questions & Answers] black_hawk1990:
Is it a must?
[Xiaomi Mi 5s Questions & Answers] sam352:
It is !
[Xiaomi Mi 5s Questions & Answers] nicoula91:
I think you should go back to MIUI forum then go to the post where you can find the Global rom and follow the post #91.

Sorry I can't post link.
[Xiaomi Mi 5s Questions & Answers] makslll:
need special cable

To flash rom via xiaomimiflash.

I've just done that, it worked flawlessly(mi5s plus)

Or, if u'r already on custom rom, just unlock bootloader before flashing new rom.

Tell me if u need more info.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] Bad Karma:
Is there a cab file that somebody has written that allows us to view our music directories in the same fashion as the newer IPod Touch?? I really appreciate the way you can view the album covers at a glance and touch on them to pull them up.

When I try to search it it gives me all kinds of stuff that leads me ...?.. I'm sure it's here somewhere. Can somebody post a link?

Thanks,

Ivan
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Questions and Answers] scientificharmony:
Hi Guys

Im having trouble flashing new Roms to my S7. When I enter TWRP recovery, it shows my device as 0MB and it doesnt picK up any files. I looked into this and read that Encryption should be disabled on the handset. I followed instructions to do this and noticed that there is no option for Encryption Protection. Its not there!

I disabled any passwords and Pin numbers to erase decryption and it still didnt work!

last resort was to try a factory reset and the device restarted to recovery and failed as TWRP recovery cant find any mounted devices due to the encryption crap.

Any help appreciated.

Chris
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Questions and Answers] MAX 404:
Hi mate

Seems like you did not format your data partition during TWRP installation.........

Try flashing your custom rom from the External SD card......your data partition has all your app , files , passwords, photos...there is still a chance that there it may be a incompatibility issue between your apps and the new rom....that is why they recommend a factory reset when flashing a new custom rom
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Questions and Answers] scientificharmony:
hi mate

thanks for your reply. I dont have an external SD card :(

Is there any other way of sorting this? I am downloading a stock rom as we speak.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Questions and Answers] MAX 404:
Hi

TWRP can not handle Samsung encryption . if you wish to use TWRP and have access to the Data partition ( internal SD card) you need to format it so the encryption is disabled ( you lose all your apps , data and user configuration AKA factory reset) , you can have TWRP and data encryption but mods and roms have to be flashed from external memories also you will not have available MTP in recovery or factory reset from it.

There is no way to disable data encryption without format data.....
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Questions and Answers] scientificharmony:
Ok, I got a friends SD card and placed the Rom on there. I can now see the Rom but the trouble is, TWRP wont let me wipe Dalvik / data / system / cache as it wont mount the storage....

can I still apply the ROM?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Questions and Answers] scientificharmony:
Unable to restart your device. The integrity verification has failed. You need to reset your device to factory default settings. This will erase all of your data.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Questions and Answers] MAX 404:
That is why I point it out " factory reset is recommended when flashing custom rom" if you wish to flash a custom rom you will have to format your data partition and flash the data verify file........
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Questions and Answers] scientificharmony:
I have tried to format/wipe data. TWRP keeps saying it failed as it cant mount the storage.

I tried flashing the stock rom via odin and it also failed as it goes to recovery to wipe data and it fails again as it cant mount storage.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Questions and Answers] MAX 404:
How did you flash the stock rom...which files did you use?

Wipe data is not enough you have to Wipe / FORMAT DATA and type yes....
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Questions and Answers] Josh Smith10:
1 To get rid of encryption, go to "wipe", format data (TWRP) (keyboard will pop up) then type "yes" and format it, then reboot to recovery

2. After flashing this, hit wipe, full wipe (this will clean all internal memory and your data will be lost

3 you can test if encryption is still enabled, if TWRP shows error about not mounting data your phone is still encrypted
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Questions and Answers] Quickvic30:
What version of TWRP are you guys using and what version Super SU?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Questions and Answers] Josh Smith10:
Delete
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Stropdas:
Last weekend I noticed my GPS on the Note 3 9005 had problems getting a GPS fix even after a reboot. I tried the usual stuff like opening it and bend and leaned the springs for better contact. When looking with the apps GPS Test en GPS Status I noticed strange behavior. The fix is not constant but like every second a fraction of the time. I made a GIF of this behavior. The location of the config-file for GPS is The Netherlands and I tried clearing the GPS-cache en recalibrating the sensors. I have it on my current ROM (Phronesis N7 v4.0 with default LSSkernel 3.5 and Music of Life S7Edge v? with DarkLord 2.0-kernel). Tried flashing the latest Asian modem bout nothing seems to change it.

Does anybody know what could be the problem of this behavior?