yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Vibrant General] iynfynity:
yeah, Edge is good for me but of course 3G is what i'm paying for so i hope that the reception will be better in my place.
[Vibrant General] ZX3ZX4:
My speed on my stock Vibrant seems to have improved just recently. Sitting inside my house in the Seattle area tonight the Speedtest.net app gave results of: 5.3-5.4 Mbps down and 1.6-1.7 Mbps up. That was the range for several successive trials. The weird thing was that when I laid the phone down on my desk, the speed dropped down to about 3.2 Mbps down and 0.70 Mbps up. When I picked it up and held it in my hand again, the speed climbed right back up to the higher range, which I verified several times. Coincidence, or could there be some body-phone-antenna thing going on?
[Vibrant General] heygrl:
No, your phone is probably cycling through two different towers. Check to see if your CID changes (Ever) in your home.
[Vibrant General] lqaddict:
By my old place in Brooklyn I was getting up to 5Mbs down back in July, but my apartment was like a Faraday Cage, by my folks in Brooklyn I am constantly getting up to 5.5Mbs, and at my new place in South Brooklyn I am back to harsh reality with 1.1Mbs at best.

These are the download speeds, upload is usually stays the same at around 1.3Mbs
[Vibrant General] Thegreatheed:
Your claim is that T-mobile's advertising of the "nation's largest 4G network" is deceptive. You didn't clarify that the 4G moniker used by the US carriers is completely false, I did. But regardless of whether the term 4G is used correctly or not, the message in the advertising claim of "nation's largest 4g network" is completely true. They have the nation's largest hi-speed cellular data network. That is fact. Technical descriptions in popular advertising have been incorrect and technically wrong since the creation of technology. Their advertising message is 100% true.

My point, and I guess I have to explain it bit by bit, is that T-mobile's advertising isn't meant to persuade customers that HSPA+ is 4G. The point of the advertising is what I said above, T-mobile has the largest hi-speed cellular data network in the US. To the average consumer, that advertising is in no way deceptive. It speaks the relative truth of their network's speed and size. It is only to geeks like us, who understand the technical terms behind popular monikers that it's "deceptive".

Get off your high horse.
[Vibrant General] Henchman:
As we sit here talking about this, does anyone remember the not so distance days if 56k modems. :-)
[Vibrant General] bvc:
I think they already started to work on their network... I usually get 800 kb/s ... since yesterday dropped to 20 kb/s at most ... might be something wrong with my phone... I flashed all kinds of roms (all of them) and I got the same speed (under 20 kb/s)... I'm from Chicago...
[Vibrant General] z0phi3l:
Usually means there's an update going on in your area, a few months ago I barely had 3G at work, then for about 2 days it was even worse, now I'm getting much better speeds
[Vibrant General] gehzumteufel:
By your logic, everything Glenn Beck says is true. Because he is one of, if not the, most watched Fox News program in the US.

You are trying (and horribly may I add) to justify and rationalise deception in any form. It is NOT the nations largest 4g network, since it isn't a 4g network. Plain and simple. It either IS or IS NOT a 4g network. There is no "well, it isn't technically, but it is the newest technology, so we call it 4g" bull****. The network either meets the 4g specifications or it doesn't. It is ABSOLUTELY impossible to be 4g, since it does not use a form of VOIP for the voice communication. It also doesn't give 100Mbps to moving and 1000Mbps to static devices. Do I need to bust out the spec?
[Vibrant General] Kubernetes:
I'm getting about 5mbps down and 1.5 up here in San Francisco, although it really does vary by location and time of day. Midday in the financial district I can barely pull 500kbps.
[Vibrant General] iynfynity:
i think there's a problem with my vibrant. it's only getting a 3g connection in one place in our house and it's in standby mode. then if i use it the 3g wil be gone. i haven't encountered this problem in the past
[Vibrant General] gehzumteufel:
There is a possibility there is a network problem. Can't say it is or isn't your phone, but try calling and they will attempt to do some troubleshooting and network checks. Give it a few days, and if it continues after that, then call again and they will either replace the phone or check the network again.
[Vibrant General] iynfynity:
if it works to other places then i just might have a bad reception at my place right?
[Vibrant General] gehzumteufel:
That is usually the case.
[Vibrant General] iynfynity:
but i have a t-mobile broadband which gets a Hspda+ in my place. the speed is really not that fast and my top download speed is 3mbps in the speedtest. but isn't it that my vibrant too should a 3g connection in my place because they are both t-mobile?
[Vibrant General] junkdruggler:
Not to mention that at&t uses the same technology, gets the same speeds on their network, and reached more people.. So its not 4g and its not bigger than at&t's hspa+ network..

No at&t does not have an hspa+ capable device but they do have a dongle capable of 21mbps down..

I have a tmo cel-fi 3g booster.. The base keeps a steady 3g signal in places my vibrant only gets edge... And I've seen it hit 3 bars in my house which no tmo phone has ever done inside.. So I think its just the phones antennas aren't as good as some non mobile devices..
[Vibrant General] iynfynity:
thanks for the reply, i want to test if 3G works in other places but i can't go outside because it's freaking cold today. lol i just hope my phone is not defective because in the past i do have a 3g in someplace at my house.
[Vibrant General] heygrl:
A good reason why the Cel-Fi picks up a signal when the Vibrant is on EDGE because it's locked to W-CDMA only. It does seem to have a better antenna and it's also not a handheld (nothing blocking or hindering the antenna)
[Vibrant General] andy696:
Thanks for making me laugh.

If people believe you, you're not lying...
[Vibrant General] junkdruggler:
Even if I have my phone locked to 3g and no 2g it still can't compere with the antenna in the cel-fi... No matter how I hold it or don't hold it.. The connection with the cel-fi is damn near guaranteed.. Only since upgrading to jk2 have I seen edge inside my house.. (happened once last night and once this morning)

Anyways back on topic.. Tmo does not have 4g (speeds even) or the largest anything.. And they have no plans on bringing 4g anytime soon..
[Vibrant General] Apexsilverevo:
Anyone know a good place to research all the differences between GSM/CDMA/W-CDMA/EGDE/GPRS/UMTS/HSDPA etc?

And what our phones support?
[Vibrant General] reuthermonkey:
http://google.com/phone

and as far as the differences between the various network types:

http://books.google.com/books?id=kX...a umts&pg=PA59#v=onepage&q=wcdma umts&f=false

and

http://books.google.com/books?id=7m-MnwW_o7AC&lpg=PP1&dq=wcdma umts lte&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false

If you want a quick summary, wikipedia isn't bad. :rolleyes:

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

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

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gprs (This includes E-GPRS - ie EDGE)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cdma2000

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Speed_Packet_Access (standard HSPA - HSDPA, and HSUPA)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolved_HSPA (HSPA+)

good luck :D
[Vibrant General] gehzumteufel:
Here are some Wikipedia links that have quite a good and relatively in depth explanation of most of the technologies.

Analog:

AMPS (the analogue system in the US that has since been discontinued and totally decommissioned)

GSM:

GSM

TDMA

GPRS

EDGE

UMTS

HSDPA

HSUPA

HSPA

CDMA:

iDEN

CDMA

EVDO

Post CDMA/GSM:

LTE

UMB

WiMax

4G (related)

OFDMA

LTE Advanced

WiMax Rev 2 (Look at 802.16m)
[Vibrant General] iynfynity:
Confirmed, my phone is not defective. It's just that my place is really no good at getting 3g reception.
[Vibrant General] mrsbelpit:
^have you ever had good 3g at your place? I had great 3g and a few weeks ago it was just gone. I called tmo and they opened a service ticket for me, within 4 days I got 3g back and even faster. I'm just saying, if you've had it before they will restore it for you. They were really great about it.
[Vibrant General] gehzumteufel:
Something similar happened at my sisters a few weeks back, but she never called. When I went back there last week, it was back to normal, albeit a bit faster also.

I have always had **** reception at my pad though. I really want to get this WiFi calling on my phone (gotta wait for the replacement to arrive) so that I can have reliable calling from my place.
[Vibrant General] iynfynity:
yeah i have a 3g like weeks ago, but now i don't know what happened. How does the service ticket works?
[Vibrant General] junkdruggler:
A service report is a complaint about service.. Techs check the network and determine if there is a problem.. Supposedly they also go to the area and check the towers.. About a week later you call and check on the service report and they tell you what the tech reported.. 4 of these from one acct in a small tome period calls for a problem ticket.. That its when they send an engineer to the area to further investigate "if" there is in fact a problem.. I've never heard anything back about this... I was supposed to be called back and informed of the results..

At about this time any csr you talk to will ignore your requests and believe all of your problems are user error..
[Vibrant General] heygrl:
3G coverage can disappear when they take a tower offline for HSPA+ upgrades.

The Cel-Fi is only marginally better than my phone for picking up 3G. I only get 3G in my window. The Cel-Fi picks up 1 bar like my Vibrant
[Vibrant General] iynfynity:
What would you suggest me to do?
[Vibrant General] bvc:
I found my problem...
[Vibrant General] junkdruggler:
I was calling bc I no longer had a reliable connection.. They've built towers in the two big cities nearby and now my connection flip flops all over.. They fixed my issue by sending me a cell-fi repeater.. This is still in its test phase so I don't know if thats possible for you.. You can also contact them thru the website.. Or call 611 and file a service request and get the ball rolling.. Also having your friends with tmo call and visit the site..

Boo that !

Yeah thats horrible.. Down with throttling!! Hope I don't ever see one of those..
[Vibrant General] cid7:
Regardless of what it's called, I'm happy with it.

I noticed it a few weeks ago, when using a relative's rooted magic with CM on it to tether. I was getting 400-500 kb/s download speeds. I rooted my Vibrant a week or so after that, and I am seeing the same speeds as well.

This is in the Cleveland/Akron Ohio area.

I used to get a max of 100 kb/s or a few months ago, so they must have upgraded to their '4g' in this area.
[Vibrant General] PaiPiePia:
It's you! You are the reason we get reduced cap.
[Vibrant General] N8ter:
T-Mobile needs to worry about putting up more 3G towers. All this bull**** about 4G means absolutely nothing to me when I can drive 5 miles and go from full 3G to data roaming.

AT&T is putting up a tower here. May have to go back to them.

Only reason why I went with T-Mobile is because I can make calls from the house on my phone unlike any other carrier.

Actually, I may even shell out for a MicroCell and go with Sprint or Verizon. Depends on what phones they get in the next couple/few months.

T-Mobile was decent for a while but their ridiculously small network is really starting to wear on me.
[Vibrant General] reuthermonkey:
Adios.

I got one of those. And i'm glad I did. I'd much rather get throttled than have to pay overages.

If you want to guarantee you won't get one of those messages, feel free to join N8ter and jump to ATT. You'll get charged overages instead. Oh, and you'll have a 2GB cap instead of 5.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ewingr:
I find that when I hook to a pc, that occasionally it blows up the PC.

On XP PCs, it will blue screen every so often. On Windows 7, it will freeze the PC.

I have experienced this on 3 different PCs.

I presume it is the drivers. I downloaded the ones on the One Click link

Anyone else seeing this, and / or have a resolution?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cappysw10:
Try Kies or Mini Kies. Scrub the system off all things Samsung, download one of these, install and then try to connect phone.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ewingr:
My problem is it does this merely by plugging in the phone. I often just plug in to charge it, and 15 seconds later, Blue Screen. Based on that, you still say "Install Kies". Does it install different drivers or something?

I have read that Kies is not too great in US. I've been accomplishing everything so far w/o it.
[Legend General] Asovse1:
Wtf, the only reason I set out to get Swype in the first place was because HTC's Touch Input was too damn slow. Now it seems that Swype is getting super laggy when I...well, Swype!

Weird too, I'm using Touch Input to write this and the speed it's giving me is phenomenal.

Just wondering if anyone else has had their Swype slow down before. I haven't installed apps in about a week, so my habit has been normal, no slowdown in other areas of the Legend experience.

The slowdown with Swype is basically when I swype my finger to somewhere on the keyboard, it doesn't draw the path I took, it draws the quickest way there, indtead, resulting in some pretty funky spelling and grammatical errors. And don't get me started on what happens when you draw up top the keyboard...

Sorry if this didn't make any sense, I'm mobile right now, not much room, time, and convenience to edit.

Touch-inputted from my HTC Legend.

PS: I've actually forgotten how amazing this keyboard is... hope it doesn't lag out on me again one day. Would hate to have both keyboards ****ed over.

PS2: Another question I might as well ask here, the Legend doesn't have HSPA+, correct? I don't think so...
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ZiggiM:
Hey

I have just got my HTC Desire rooted and don't have a clue how to use it, so anyone wanna give me pointers or tell me how to customize or do as much as i can with this rooted HTC Desire, i have a rom installed on it called Lee Droid, but i was hoping to find out if i can add any other roms or do other things with it, someone please help me?!! lol :confused:

anyways thanks for reading this and i hope one of use helps me :)
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ninsassin:
Gratz on getting it rooted!

I guess the first thing you can do is theme it with the theme kitchen http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=775970

Just be careful about what you select. Or else you will cause yourself a bootloop.

Just to be safe do a nandroid backup and have a rom named update.zip ready to be flashed in the RUU if anything goes wrong.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rolfd:
Moved to Q&A as you may get more help here than in the Themes forum.

If this doesn't work out for you, PM me and I'll move it back :)
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EddyOS:
To be honest if you don't know what rooting is then you probably don't need it - always best to read up on it all before doing it!! ;)
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] noobandroid:
so you have LeeDroid, good, now, download Espresso's theme, which specifically is made for LeeDroid

find bundles and bundles of apps that you can use to mess with the rom, like a terminal emulator, root explorer, setCPU and many more, if you dont know how, check out my appbrain, loads of stuff

http://www.appbrain.com/user/giggles/apps-on-the-htc-desire
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ZiggiM:
here mate sorry bout this but can u give me a little bit more detail on how to do that i would be really greatful

thanks
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ZiggiM:
thanks for that

but sorry to say thats jibberish lol, could you think you could go into more detail on how to do that kind of stuff, i would be really greatful, i know wat rooted is but have no clue how to use it or customize anything, im sorry for the inconvience ...

reply back?
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] k1sr:
Ok, this is not some whining thread about the x10, so if you want to whine, go somewhere else...

Now that's the disclaimer out of the way...

Is anyone finding their x10 is just getting worse on 1.6...?

I never had any real issues except the occasional freeze, which now seems to have partially resolved itself, but now the following issues are starting to creep in, which I have never ever had before (these have all started in the last week or so)

Phone will just hang up when I'm in the middle of a conversation

Mobile Data seems to just not want to connect/turn on

Widgets seem un-responsive - they often don't recognise that I'm tapping them

Phone reboots by itself

Incredible sluggishness (like 10 seconds to respond) to certain events

I'm not asking if you've had these kind of issues for ever - all phones seem to have some stupid quirk that stops them working properly (mine was freezes) - I really want to know if any one else's phone has just recently started to deteriorate on its own (I haven't dropped it, rooted it, changed it, kicked it or anything)

I'm just hoping that when my carrier 2.1 comes along, these things will fix themselves...
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pngface:
I've always had these problems since i installed 2.1, i've been waiting for it to go away :( Well actually I've only had the last issue, ie sluggishness
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Zer0_:
With 2.1, I'm sure that most of your issue will be fixed :)

I rarly get lagg; I only get lag when I'm running like 10-15 different applications as once!

Only thing that sucks about xperia though is that there is WAY to much BLUE on it :P

But I'm sure you'll be happy with 2.1 :D
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] k1sr:
My main concern is that these things have crept up just recently... it's just odd... :(
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Z3X:
CAnt connect through my PC anymore via cable, also very sluggish.
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] k1sr:
You're on 2.1 though... could be to do with your update - I'm talking about 1.6 just getting worse...

Unless, of course everything was fine when you updated, and now it starting to get worse...
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alankstiyo:
I've had some unresponsiveness while clicking widgets or accessing the menu

Camera seems to be slower when trying to access

think so far it's all
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GMC7000:
Yeah, the same thing has been happening to me for the last couple of weeks. Phone has been freezing, acting oddly or slow, and rebooting on its own.

The big disclaimer here is that I'd recently updated a bunch of my apps, so I figured the issue may lay with one of those, and with 2.1 coming shortly (hopefully, Rogers!), I can't be bothered uninstalling then one by one to see if I'm right. If the issues continue post-2.1, then I'll have to start tinkering.
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Artificial__:
Reboot problem

There are many pple with the reboot problem, check this:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=831658
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Z3X:
Exactly what I mean
[Android Themes] peniston:
Discuss how awesome SiMi Clock is.

A

HUGE

thanks to hateman for providing us a version for Android 2.1 and higher, instead of just 2.2

Updates

: Newest first.

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[Android Themes] ugh what:
I thought it was app version 2.1, not the version for Android 2.1?
[Android Themes] peniston:
On his website it says

Request:

* 3×1 size

* Customize date format

* Hide weak of the year

* Start application on tap

* 2.1 Sdk Version

Version 1.2 is now online.

Is sdk version not what I'm talking about? D:
[Android Themes] ugh what:
Oh, huh. Weird.
[Android Themes] Spirit02:
Sure sdk version is....

However that's the *request* list...

3x1 size is crossed out, so I'm guessing that's now a feature in the new version.

The rest (I'm guessing), are yet to be implemented...
[Android Themes] peniston:
That makes sense..lol.

Gah hurry upppppppp I want it. D;
[Android Themes] hateman:
Your are absolutly right. At the moment I am working on the 2.1 Version and hope to have it in the market on Wednesday.
[Android Themes] balex3000:
Is it possible to release it for Android 2.1 too?
[Android Themes] hateman:
Development nearly finished ....
[Android Themes] hateman:
SiMi Clock for Android 2.1 is in the market.

Have fun
[Android Themes] suself:
ooh! yay! :)

you're the best!
[Android Themes] jjsoviet:
I love you (in a brotherly way). :D
[Android Themes] liquid blue:
I burnt my dinner thanks to this distraction.

Thanks!
[Android Themes] peniston:
Oh boy!
[Android Themes] Dark_Wizard:
How much longer for the date customization? Love this clock and am anxiously waiting.....
[Android Themes] hateman:
Hi

How do you want to customize the date? What should be possible ?
[Android Themes] Dark_Wizard:
I would love it if we could change the font size and maybe even color....currently the text is too small for us older folks to see it as it is now.
[Android Themes] skribbler86:
Hooray for simi clock on android 2.1
[Android Themes] hateman:
SiMi Clock 1.6

Hi

Version 1.6 is in the market

New in this version

2×1 size

Customizable dateformat

Have fun :-)
[Android Themes] willn0t:
Is it possible to add Alarm time info (optional)

thanks!!
[G2 and Desire Z General] rewen:
Hi guys just curious if any of you get any squeel when using you g2 with headphones or aux when nothing is playing. Mine makes the noise but as soon as music starts it's gone. Not sure if it's my cable or car.. i don't think my Legend did this.
[G2 and Desire Z General] ibemad1:
Never had it happen to me...
[G2 and Desire Z General] ilikepu:
it might be engine noise. i used to have that issue a lot with other devices (my TP2 and sirius sat radio). do you have the charger plugged in when you use it
[G2 and Desire Z General] zielin:
I get a bunch of annoying noise when playing music through my car speakers, but only if the phone is plugged into the charger at the same time. Not sure why. As soon as I unplug the charger the noise goes away.
[G2 and Desire Z General] ilikepu:
thats the dredded engine noise what happens is that it picks up the noise from the battery. the only way to get rid of it is to get a filter to the aux cord. my bro hooks up systems in ppls car and it always happens when you connect it to the car battery.
[G2 and Desire Z General] elbarto7:
+1 I got similar filter like this in my car.http://cgi.ebay.com/3-5mm-FILTER-CO...er_MP3_Player_Accessories&hash=item5d273d8ff9
[G2 and Desire Z General] SeReaction:
Just a question, are any of you guys attaching a car charger to the phone while playing the music in the car?

Aside from zielin.
[G2 and Desire Z General] Turbo Brian:
i get some feedback noise when no music is playing but when playing, there is no issue. when i stop playback, it takes a couple seconds then the noise starts. ive always had a charger plugged in too. never tried without the charger.
[G2 and Desire Z General] ilikepu:
that is the issue when you have the phone plugged into power read the post
[G2 and Desire Z General] rewen:
Interesting.. i didn't get the noise today but i didnt have the charger plugged in. Normally i do. Will check into this tomorrow.. thanks.
[G2 and Desire Z General] wookieloou:
I get this same thing. I've never had this problem before with my G1, MyTouch Slide, Vibrant or Nexus One. It's gotta be something with the G2.
[G2 and Desire Z General] SoTacMatt:
I do. I had bought a gold-plated male x male 3.5mm jack cord from Radio Shack. When nothing is playing, I get that noise.

SoTacMatt