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[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Accessories] xredjokerx:
http://www.thinkgeek.com/electronics/cell-phone/b8a0/

let me know how it works! haha
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Accessories] fone_fanatic:
maybe try a different radio?

I know Best Buy sells signal boosters but i remember them being a bit expensive.

unfortunately our devices don't have an external antenna jack, i know the kaiser (original tilt)
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Accessories] tinpanalley:
Thanks guys.

As far as radios, do I just keep trying one by one until I see an improvement? Is there one that is known of that is stronger than others? The Fuze forum has a thread with people's results voting for which was best. Nothing like that here.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Accessories] sirphunkee:
Yes, exactly...you'll need to try out the ones that are available for your model, and just see which one gives the best results in your situation/location. You can read votes and recommendations all day long, but they can have no relation to what results you will see ;)

THIS thread has the complete list of radios available for the Rhodium
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Accessories] IKNO:
Unwiredsignal with a Desktop kit 801247

You can try a Wilson desktop cell phone signal booster. It might work for you. I have one in my home office... (basement) and it covers that area only (20x20) so I think it would be perfect for an apartment. I havent tried it in a larger area, but Unwiredsignal.com says it will cover a one to two room area. There is no physical connection to your phone.

Hope this helps...

Jacob
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Accessories] nycny:
Both ATT and TMobile offer microcell. Trialing in various areas.

It uses your existing broadband connection to relay calls to your phone.

Looking at ATTs' website it appears to be $150.00 for the equipment.

Here is a link.

http://www.wireless.att.com/learn/why/3gmicrocell/
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Accessories] tinpanalley:
Thanks a lot guys. I'd hate to have to pay 320 for the one on Unwiredsignal.com but I'll look into it.
[HTC Excalibur] apolux_x:
i have a locked s620 and i am waiting for the code and i mde a hard uspl and flash the 6.5wm and now when i insert a sim card no signal and not asking any more the unlock code. please tell me what i did wrong.thank you in advance
[HTC Excalibur] 10507:
Please use the search engine, because this question has been asked numerous times. Anyway, you can read here for more information on how to input your unlock code.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=622967
[HTC Excalibur] apolux_x:
thank you very much and sorry for not using the search button
[HD2 General] lude219:
Who needs 3G when your EDGE can perform even better?:p If you configure your MEdia Net setting with the AT&T proxy setting (HTTP: wireless.cingular.com:80, Socks: localhost:1080), then you can get EDGE up to +500kbps easily. The only problem that I encountered (thus far) is that you can't update weather, stocks, or even play youtube (it'll load the search but just wouldn't play)....and I'm sure some people are aware of that. Now if you want everything to work, all you have to do is uncheck the proxy server box, but in doing so, your EDGE speed comes crawling at 100-150kbps.

So my question is, is there a way to modify the registry to get the weather, stock and possibly youtube to work over AT&T proxy?

EDIT::

I'm using Opera 9.7 build35627

On the address bar, type in opera:config

Go 3/4th of the way down on the list and you'll find PROXY.

now on the fifth line you'll see HTTP server and you'll type in wireless.cingular.com:80

Go down a bit and you'll see USE HTTP. check that box.

Save. Exit and restart Opera.
[HD2 General] harolds:
It's AT&T's proxy server that is blocking the data, so your answer is no.
[HD2 General] lude219:
great work-around!:)
[HD2 General] tjex:
Now to figure out if I can get this to work on Fido/Rogers
[HD2 General] Aleemz:
Great news for AT&T users!

I wonder how many other networks around the world offer such speed increases with changing a few settings like this.
[HD2 General] lude219:
I wouldn't be shocked if other carriers have the similar proxy implementation. It's weird because the older connectionsetup v103 doesn't pick up the proxy setting for AT&T, only the newer connection setup did.
[HD2 General] Nimche:
Well this is nice found.

Just to clear my own mind I have some questions.

Isn't 3G and EDGE are in different radios on your phone? Like having a high speed internet on your phone line?

EDGE doesn't let you to use your internet while you are talking on your cellphone?

I like this config though, I hope we can find some ways to fix this permenant.

Cheers and thanks for letting us know.
[HD2 General] lude219:
Yes, 3G frequency is different from the GSM (EDGE). I'm just helping those who have a Euro HD2 (stuck with EDGE) or any HD2, but would rather conserve battery by sticking to EDGE. GSM is quadband so you'll get more and better signal coverage than say, 3G, so the chances of you getting good reception everywhere you go is very great. I have 3G and HSPA with my T9193 but honestly, I don't spend most of my time on the net, so it's good to have 850mhz UMTS, though it's not needed in my case. EDGE works just fine :)

Some devices before like my Diamond and my friend's HD, their 3G speed is around 400-500kbps...which is abysmal when EDGE on the HD2 can perform even better :p It's just a neat thing for you to have if you want both GOOD battery lilfe and FAST internet. Sure, you sacrifice talk-n-surf, but it's not important for me. I can always turn on 3G/HSDA if i wanted. :)
[HD2 General] Nimche:
lude219,

Thank you for the answer. I do own a European version right now and I take the phone out of charge by 7 AM and then by the end of the night (same day) I have %10 left. I don't use too much internet but just recieve emails. Do you think that when I get 3G phone it will consume more than this? I should start carying a Car's battery with me.

Nothing is perfect. I like the idea of the EDGE/

I will update when I have both phone in hand...
[HD2 General] balane:
I guess since nobody is mentioning this it can't work but I'll be the dumb one and ask anyway. Is there any way to get this to work on T-Mobile USA? I don't have the knowledge of proxies like you guys do. I have a 3G US version but 3G reception is horrible at my house and I would love to have it stick on Edge at certain times with increased speed. My 3G gives me pretty poor bandwidth overall anyway, certainly less than 500kbps on average. Can it be done on Tmo?
[HD2 General] lukohtchd2:
ive tried this a few times and its just not working, on opera its saying gateway timed out, any help appreciated.
[HD2 General] din0_22:
before the biggest HOOORAY!!! i have a few questions..

does this only works for Opera. Do we get the same speed in IE or maybe skyfire (since we are only applying the proxy under Opera)??

If so, how about downloading using Opera?

and last

what speedtest are you using? I went to speedtest mobile and got lower than 28.8k and am using At&t edge here in the east coast.. (please note i have not started doing the above procedure)

my settings: (personally selected to make sure i am not going to be charge because i currently has iphone 2g plan in my att and did not call them to register my phone since i am using Edge as well)

Baseband - Bands

Network type: GSM -> selected

Band Frequesncy: GSM (1900+850) selected

Advanced Network

HSDPA/HSUPA -> Disabled
[HD2 General] din0_22:
Holy crap!!!!!!!!!!!! 677kbps used mobilespeedtest.com

you are freaking GENiUS!!!!!!!
[HD2 General] lukohtchd2:
i want this speed, could you please be more detail in what you did sorry im a noob :confused:
[HD2 General] din0_22:
open your opera

type

about:config (in the address bar without the www.http://)

and go down the list until you see proxy server. Under HTTP,

type

wireless.cingular.com:80 (without spaces)

and check mark the HTTP box further down the list. Save. Exit. Restart opera
[HD2 General] lukohtchd2:
ok ive already done that and then when i open opera back up and search it takes a while the a message pops up saying HTTP gateway timed out.

sorry to be so stupid
[HD2 General] harolds:
Sounds like you are not on U.S. AT&T.
[HD2 General] din0_22:
that is weird..

your using att right?

if still not working.. try flashing to duttys rom v.05 because it has an updated opera

but seriously, i dont think it shoukd matter.. since we are only changing the proxy server
[HD2 General] lukohtchd2:
think you may be rite, im in uk using t-mobile?
[HD2 General] balane:
So is this possible to do with T-Mobile USA? They have both Edge and 3G so shouldn't a similar setting be available for them as well? Thank you.
[HD2 General] lude219:
I don't know Tmos (US or UK?) proxy, but i'm sure it's out there. Did you check howardforum?

I only try this on Opera because that's what I use. I couldn't find the settings page in IE or even Skyfire. If anyone know, please chime in :) I have dutty 1.4 so the Opera version in there is pretty new. Your band setting looks good because that's what I have selected also. I try both using the iphone speed test @ dsl reports page and also mobilespeedtest site. Both sites gave me similar numbers!

Not a genius, just a curious user who wants to get the most out of his AT&T $15 unlimited data plan :p Are you sure you're not on 3G? Because the HD2 class 12 EDGE is capable up to 576kbps...but hey, 576, 677...what's the difference, right? =P

I'm pretty sure all carriers have some kind of proxy that they set up. Because I have AT&T, that's the only setting I know. HOpefully more people will chime in with canada or Uk settings.
[HD2 General] kkleung:
Any way that I can get this to work on the rogers network network up in the cold North?

Thanks for any help!!
[HD2 General] lude219:
Use the latest HTC connection setup and afterward go into "Connections" > ADVANCED > SELECT NETWORK > tmo EDIT > PROXY SETTING.

If the proxy server box is checked, click on advance and copy the server under HTTP. THat's the server you put into Opera. Now I don't know if Tmo USA will give you a proxy server like AT&T did to mine...so try it and see :)
[HD2 General] balane:
Will do, the instant I can and will post results here. Thank you very much for the info. Sounds like this is a groundbreaking discovery. Cheers.
[HD2 General] din0_22:
now.. there is only one issue,.

if you have this setup and your phone suddenly got connected to your wifi (i.e. home, office etc..)

Opera will not function due to the proxy server.

if only someone can create a .cab program toggle switcher that can be either manually afjust the on or off switch for the opera if connected to wifi so we dont have to manually uncheck the proxy when using wifi then this fix would be a great benefit to all of us.
[HD2 General] lude219:
Opera still works over wifi on mine.:)
[HD2 General] mallman:
same here, works fine
[HD2 General] din0_22:
LOL... pls disregard my previous post!!!! i just realized that my network is acting up..

now i confirm that IT WORKS!!!!!!

mobilespeedtest.com

wifi - 1022kbps / 1mb test / DSL 1792 kbps plan

edge - 677kbps / 1mb test / iphone 2G plan at&t

AwESöME!!!!!!!!!!!!!

im not using 3G and hsdpa is disabled (im using a euro unbranded HD2).

Duttys holy grail v.05 is my rom!
[HD2 General] Nimche:
I have European version of HD2 and running on EDGE. Just test the mobilespeedtest.com and here is the result,.

EDGE: 909 kbps on 100KB

EDGE: 3738 kbps on 500KB

EDGE: 6667 kbps on 1MB

EDGE: 10390kbps on 2MB

EDGE: 14213 kbps on 7MB

It tells me that I did download 7MB in almost 4 seconds which means 1.70MB/second? almost as fast as my internet at home? THIS IS A JOKE?

My phone is not tweaked, stock ROM and everything default. I am running the test on Skifire. It seems to be little BS or big BS?

WIFI: 1333kbps on 100KB

WIFI: 5479 kbps on 500KB

WIFI: 5063 kbps on 1MB

WIFI: 8421 kbps on 2MB

WIFI: 16279 kbps on 7MB

I don't get it and I am sure I am missing something? Happy that its not April 1st.
[HD2 General] lude219:
The problem is that you're using skyfire to do your test. Try using just ordinary Opera. Skyfire pretty much acts as a proxy because data get sent to their server before they're sent to your handset.
[HD2 General] brandi:
ever thought about that the tests might be wrong? There is no way that you can be faster than the specification of edge... That is about 220Kbit/s.

Everything over that could be genereated from buffer delay in the network or general miscalculation of the transfer speed....
[HD2 General] mallman:
i have made this change and cannot get more than 176 and i have tested it countless times all over the place including several different cities. Not sure this works for me.... Maybe i put the setting in the wrong place, there are a lot of places to type in the opera settings
[HD2 General] Lizzo:
times like this i wish i lived in the us...3g, kick ass edge....yep yep yep bmobile(my carrier) sucks...lol
[HD2 General] mojohio:
I have the European HD2 on US ATT Edge with HD v. 1.66 stock rom. Ran speedtest from mobilespeedtest.com several occasions today. Best result has been 270 kps. I've set the phone bands to GSM only so I don't waste battery constantly searching for 3G network. Could this be the reason my results are significantly less? or, with all of the Opera settings, could I have setup wrong http: setting? or, is it because it is impossible to achieve faster than Edge speeds on an Edge network.
[HD2 General] din0_22:
im not really sure how to explain it but, in my case having US at&t edge after setting up the proxy in Opera and testing out mobilespeedtest.net 2mb test. I get about 677kbps yesterday and today, prior to posting this i got a whooping 690kbps.

the weird thing is, last night i did try downloading "fixoperaflash" using edge, but it seems slow..

i also look for other testing websites such as dslreports mobile but got about 170kbps instead..

can you guys try it in other mobile speed test website and ser if it makes any differences
[HD2 General] lude219:
Okay, I'll do a step-by-step:

I'm using Opera 9.7 build35627

On the address bar, type in opera:config

Go 3/4th of the way down on the list and you'll find PROXY.

now on the fifth line you'll see HTTP server and you'll type in wireless.cingular.com:80

Go down a bit and you'll see USE HTTP. check that box.

Save. Exit and restart Opera.

I didn't touch any other options, just only what's under the PROXY link. Now if yours doesn't work, maybe you'd need to be on a different port? I dunno. The proxy server name was what I found after the HTC connection setup and I don't know if there's any other AT&T proxy server out there. Now for those who set it up correctly and get around 100-200kbps, are you doing the speed test during day time? I seem to get sporadic speeds (moreso over at dsl reports than mobilespeedtest) during the day time, I seem to get the best speed around the evening or at night. But then again, I guess it could be due to how much data your cell tower is being bombard with (probably by those on iphones :D). Overall, I can't speak for everyone, only myself, that the settings I have up top indeed work and through surfing and downloading, it is indeed faster compare to non-proxy setup. I hope that helps.:)
[HD2 General] lude219:
Who's wrong? HD2 is a class 12 EDGE that's capable up to 576kbps. The Diamond/D2/TP/TP2/HD before that has a class 10 edge up to 236kbps. Whether or not the carrier cap off the speed is a whole different situation in itself. I know that with browser like Skyfire that data is being compressed and prone to buffer delay that's why I use strictly Opera (though you can repeat the test on IE if you want...and it'll give you the same result). I use both Opera and IE to test the proxy (again, to have it work on IE, weather and stock do not update) and they both give me +500kbps speed...which is well within the boundary of the max 576kbps.
[HD2 General] Straputsky:
Where did you get this information?

My knowledge so far:

The difference between class 10 and class 12 is, that class 10 has 4 Down and 2 Uplinks, whereas class 12 has 4 and 4. So download speed should stay the same - independant of class 10 or class 12 EDGE as long as the radio rom is up-to-date.

Ever tested it with an EDGE 10 device? If an old EDGE 10 device with an old radio rom gets the same speedup, I would say "Something is rotten in the state of Denmark" :D
[HD2 General] Audiguy3:
Not to be critical - you know that TMobile is releasing this phone in the US. It would probably be best to sell yours now and purchase one for that network when it is released.
[HD2 General] lude219:
HTC official spec sheet;)
[HD2 General] iarapilot:
Well, it works quite well for me on ATT. Was getting 76-112 before the change, and now I get 576-649. Pretty impressive. And, the Sense weather update works also.
[HD2 General] Straputsky:
@lude219

:o Things could always be so easy... Most times I looked up for things like that I got messages like "Band frequency and data speed are operator dependent." :D

Okay, nice piece of information. In the meantime I did a little research and discovered that it is likely a new technology called "EDGE Evolution". So older devices won't do it, cause new hardware (for the consumer) is needed. It doesn't depend on your multislot class (if it's 10 or 12) but it depends if certain hardware is installed. So class 12 devices are newer it's more likely that they are capable to handle EDGE Evolution. Seems that your network already did the software upgrade needed. Congratulations!

(http://www.ericsson.com/technology/whitepapers/3107_The_evolution_of_EDGE_A.pdf)
[HD2 General] lude219:
Like always, it's easier to look at what's there first, before digging for what's NOT there:p

AT&T/Cingular is pretty up-to-date with their technology (minus 4G/LTE) and for all the hatred they're getting from Verizon and whatnot, their data is pretty consistent across all region of the US. Their EDGE network pretty much blanket the whole country and the data itself is up there with 3G speed from other carriers. I'm not too fond of the class-10 or class-12 nomenclature because there are some phones from Nokia or SE that has a class-12 EDGE but only up to 236kbps....soooo...:confused:

If you go on GSMArena, you can peruse through the phones from the past 2 years and phones with class-10 or class-12 have either 236kbps or 576kbps (only one I know to have 576kbps at the moment is the HD2..though I could be wrong), but the official spec sheet says 576kbps so I'll go with that. Any discrepancies in speed could be related to the network, to the hardware or even down to the browser (caching makes pulling up web pages faster).

I have a Diamond next to me and no matter what, it would never go more than +200kbps with the AT&T proxy setting, which again, coincide with the fact that it's a class-10 EDGE.

Great to hear! What browser were you using to get over 600kbps and also what site? I'm assuming mobilespeedtest?
[HD2 General] Straputsky:
The given class only determines how many up- and downlinks you have, how many you can use at the same time and how they can be combined.

As given here:

Class 10 means 4 timeslots for download and 2 timeslots for upload. You could use 5 at the same time (for example 3+2 or 4+1)

Class 12 means 4 timeslots for download and 4 timeslots for upload. You could use 5 at the same time (just don't know the possible combinations here :o)

Class 32 means 5 timeslots for download and 3 timeslots for upload. You could use 6 at the same time (for example Nokia 93 and 95)

That's all about the classes. When it comes to EDGE-Speed other things become more important. EDGE increases the speed per timeslot. As you can

see here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enhanced_Data_Rates_for_GSM_Evolution

pure EDGE is restricted by MCS-9	with a theoretical maximum bandwith of 59.2kbps per timeslot. Given four timeslots you can achieve 236,8kbps.

Interesting thing is, HTC says the HD2 can speed up to 560kbps. We know it has only four channels. That means the new EDGE Evolution (for which additional hardware is needed) is at least capable of delivering 140kbps per timeslot (maybe even more)! Given the old restriction of 59,2 that's quiet impressive.

I should notice that I'm used to have a speed around 2Mbit, though. :p
[HD2 General] lude219:
Wow! You learn somehting new everyday. I didn't quite understand the MCS before but now I do, thank you.:) Further down it says that Evolution EDGE is capable up to 1MBit/s? :eek:
[HD2 General] FIREONHIGH:
i am using omnia ll ,i tryed your settings and noticed pages load MUCH faster!!and i was thinking of seling this,,,not anymore:D...THANKYOU SOOO MUCHHHH FOR POSTING THE INFO!!! YOU ARE THE MANNN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
[HD2 General] eastside770:
so yall are sayin i can buy an t8585 and have just about same coverage as the t9193?
[HD2 General] lude219:
Proxy is not phone-specific, it'll work with any phone using AT&T as their carrier. I'm glad you're enjoying the faster surfing on your Omnia2!!:D

This tweak can be applied to either t8585 or the newer (850mhz UMTS) t9193. What I find is that it's most useful under EDGE as it double or triples what you have before. 3G and HSPA speeds do increase with this tweak albeit by a smaller margin than comparing to EDGE. This tweak is, however, very useful to those who have t8585 on AT&T network. Due to the lack of 3G on this model, they can get similar 3G speed on EDGE alone.
[HD2 General] anonuser1:
Not faster

Opera does this nifty thing where they do the prerendering of the website on their servers and only send the HTML content to your phone.

I imagine, the speedtest is reporting back the speed of the connection between the opera servers and the speedtest site. Therefore you actually do not have a download speed that is faster than the physical wireless specification of EDGE connections.
[HD2 General] lude219:
You're right. Downloading a file is different from downloading a webpage. I think you're thinking of skyfire when you're talking about prerendering and caching of webpages. All opera does is show you the end result after all the data has gone through AT&T server. They're the one doing all the prerendering and chewing and spit out the end result to Opera. Be that as it may, for me, websites do load 2x/3x as fast under the proxy setting (at least for AT&T, I don't know about your carrier/service) than without. Yes, sometimes the numbers reported by mobilespeedtest or dslreports may be a bit misconstrued if I see it going higher than 600kbps (as the HD2 is limited to 576kbps or so), and I can then deduce that it's the caching that's effing up the result, but point being, i've load pages with and without the proxy setting and the difference is night and day.
[HD2 General] Agoattamer:
Well shucks. I tried this proxy setting for opera and it didnt make a difference for me. I have the T9193. I switched bands from WCDMA to GSM and the phone showed the E. But I was still only getting speeds on E less than 200kbps. I even tried the proxy in the network configuration to see if it helped. No dice for me. I have the 850UMTS band so its not that big of deal. But I was looking for that extra edge. ;)

It may be location as not all ATT towers and areas are capable of the higher speeds.

I can tell you my experience with the proxy. My prior phone was a samsung impression. It's network profile used the proxy as I suspect all ATT branded phones do. When using the proxy pic detail was decreased. Even when downloading pics it would reduce picture size. I would download 240x400 wallpapers. And if they downloaded through the proxy with medianet they were like 230x383 or something like that. Just something to look out for if using the proxy.
[HD2 General] FIREONHIGH:
NIGHT AND DAY diffference for me also!..if you ever in central fl. p.m...i owe you many beeers!! you saved me the hassle of selling my phone and laying out more coin!! im still STOKED..WOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOO....
[HD2 General] rangbaz:
can someone get me setting for rogers,i have leo getting 129kbs.thanks
[HD2 General] eastside770:
okay so i have one more question would it be best to get the t8585 or get the t-mobile hd2?(im not payin $600-$900 for the t9193)
[HD2 General] lude219:
what carrier do u have? It's entirely up to you. Get whichever one fits your needs.