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No more Vibrant...

For now......
No, Im not switching over to another phone and crying about how my GPS didnt work, or that tmobile unlimited data isnt unlimited 3g Data after 10gbs. I just lost my phone . Im sure who ever found it at the club is enjoying the bionix 1.4 rom it had.
The bad part is that asurion has them on backorder so I was told it would be around a week for them to have it available. It sucks but atleast the process was super easy. Only took like 5 mins and they aproved my claim with no questions asked.
I went back to my Iphone 4, luckly i hadnt sold it. Runs really smooth compared to vibrant, specially the internet browser. But I truly miss the 4in screen and most importantly 3G speeds!!!

Where's My Droid - Dont leave home without it

KerryG said:
Where's My Droid - Dont leave home without it
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Wave Secure is another good one. Remote Wipe through text message, remote lock, remote track, and if you install it as a system app, you can remote enable GPS.
And if you install the addon, it can't be uninstalled.

krylon360 said:
Wave Secure is another good one. Remote Wipe through text message, remote lock, remote track, and if you install it as a system app, you can remote enable GPS.
And if you install the addon, it can't be uninstalled.
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Most people will remove the SIM card from the phone (can't get text messages), and most people will just factory reset the phone if it's not locked (or from the buttons if it's not a defective vibrant).
That's like putting a password on a laptop, when it boots up and says "Press F10 for System Recovery"
Thoroughly useless.

I'm enjoying my 3G speeds too. Thankfully, unlike AT&T -- T-Mobile preemptively set a choke chain on your type of usage. I hope you've resumed your old AT&T account and got your unlimited data back.
It's more like 5Mbps but Speedtest.net doesn't work properly for me at all, 30 percent and it jumps to completion before it has the chance to reach max speed. I've downloaded a few files at 500Kbps+, which means the speed I'm getting is more or less around 5Mb/s

Want Better 4G Signal? Do This

http://webupon.com/web-talk/epic-4g-signal-boost/?ref=nf

Firstly, My understanding is that what this will do is modify the minimum signal strength the phone will connect to down to -110db. When the phone is connected at this signal (-110db) does data still work sufficiently well or does it drop packets?
Secondly, could this same sort of modification be done to the cdma radio?

It works sufficiently well, you will not notice a speed drop at all, you will probably get a small speed increase, but your 4G signal strength will increase drastically if you follow the steps. For the CDMA Radio, you can increase 3G speeds, by following these steps:
1. Know the MSL
2. Dial ##3282#
3. Go to multimedia
4. HTTPPD Proxy Port must be 0
5. HTTPPD Proxy Address must be 0.0.0.0
It may be already done if you have a Custom ROM, but this will boost your 3G speed by about .5 mbps, which is pretty good

When I try to edit the values, my 4G gets disconnected, and the value is not saved.

It does disconnect and reconnect but the values are supposed to stay changed, are you sure you are following the steps completely right?

My phone is stock ROM. Does it need to be rooted or something beforehand?

Yes, I think that might be the problem. My phone is rooted and the values save.

I'm rooted -- DK28 running Truly Epic (ext4)
When I ##3282#, I get a menu with View and Edit.
When I hit Edit, it asks for MSL (which I enter). Then at the bottom, there's a wimax option, but the options after that don't follow your instructions.
When you say 4G radio has to be on, does it have to be actually connected? I'm in an area where I don't get 4G... I'll try it when I get into range later on.

@decalex - yeah I think 4g has to be on before you start the process. I'm not sure you'll get any values if not.
@goku- thanks for this thread. I just did it and noticed a pretty substantial increase in my 4g speed. Before the test, I pulled just around 3.9-4.0mbps on speedtes.net. After I did this, I'm getting around 6.5mbps. Big thanks. I'm on my phone or I would send a thanks your way
Thx has been sent

decalex said:
I'm rooted -- DK28 running Truly Epic (ext4)
When I ##3282#, I get a menu with View and Edit.
When I hit Edit, it asks for MSL (which I enter). Then at the bottom, there's a wimax option, but the options after that don't follow your instructions.
When you say 4G radio has to be on, does it have to be actually connected? I'm in an area where I don't get 4G... I'll try it when I get into range later on.
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Yeah, 4G has to be on, and this hack is for places with spotty coverage. Try it when you get in range and see the difference!

When i choose local and type in getprop its just a black screen i can't move it or i don't see the 6 digit number.

You could try "getprop | grep MSL"
That should get you the exact line without having to scroll.

Tried and confirmed working (on rooted stock Eclair). Here in NYC/Queens I never see over 4M down, just did this and got 6.5. I can also get 4G in my basement now. Awesome, and much much props.

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You could try "getprop | grep MSL"
That should get you the exact line without having to scroll.
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do i type it exactly how you typed it?

hey guys on dk28 rooted stock rom I got my msl and then went to do the ##3282# and then i have view and edit and the only option for wimax is view. When I get in after entering my msl I find the two fields and enter the -110 and then the other number and it doesnt keep the values afterwards. should there be 0's in front like what is there now or is it just -110.
Thanks, guys for any help you can give.
Hey guys got it working had to reenter the numbers again back to back didnt take the 1st time just disconnected 4g so just tried it again and they took the 2nd time. so try that if you notice it not taking the values at 1st just put them right back in.

I think I know what you mean. Just type getprop again then hit enter from that black screen and you'll see a ton of lines come up. The msl is located on one of those lines
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do i type it exactly how you typed it?
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running_the_dream said:
I think I know what you mean. Just type getprop again then hit enter from that black screen and you'll see a ton of lines come up. The msl is located on one of those lines
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when i hit enter from the black screen all it does it bring up another little dollar sign.There are no lines at all.I don't know what im doing wrong.

Maybe goku knows. Are you using a virtual keyboard or the physical? I used the physical when I did it. Not that it will definitely work but maybe try both (virtual and physical)?
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when i hit enter from the black screen all it does it bring up another little dollar sign.There are no lines at all.I don't know what im doing wrong.
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running_the_dream said:
Maybe goku knows. Are you using a virtual keyboard or the physical? I used the physical when I did it. Not that it will definitely work but maybe try both (virtual and physical)?
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Ya i tried both keyboards.

So I am assuming that this will negatively effect the battery life, but only if you leave the 4g radio on in either a low 4g signal area or a no 4g signal area, right? Once you are connected, this should have negligible effects on battery life. Or am I mistaken?

3g Speed boost post your before and after

Ive been using THIS to try to boost 3g speeds, but speedtest is showing that i'm actually getting a slower speed and more ping.
Before:
Down - .90mbps
Up - .7 mbps
After:
Down - .33mbps
Up - .13mbps

Airplane mode on/....... airplane mode off.....
fast again.
just do it.
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with the stock settings or with the default settings?

My speed boost was minimal. In fact, sometimes, my wife's Evo is faster than mine. However, I discovered that Youtube and Slacker Radio will NOT work without the speed hack.

i cleared all 4 boxes, rebooted, airplaned, all that stuff and i still get piss poor results.
speedtest, imo is flaky as hell as an app. earlier it thought i was in germany, now it thinks im in texas and lists texas cities. ive tried numerous servers and i can never break past 700kbps up/down.
i live near a major sprint tower and i parked next to it, full bars, and THEN i was able to get 1mbps down/900kbps up.
the fcc app is workable, but it force closes too much.
still not satisfied with my speed now compared to when i first got the phone.
i got the latest pri/prl/radio, everythings updated.
on average i still get about 200-500kbps down. :/

kthejoker20 said:
Airplane mode on/....... airplane mode off.....
fast again.
just do it.
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This is the trick I use...

Yeah, I'm not showing any better results when changing the settings, but if I go to airplane mode and back Im pushing 1.2 megs. Thanks for your post!

[Q] My S5 is slow, and the Data and Wifi rate absolutely suck. Please help me out.

So I've had my S5 for a few months now. It's basically been a dream for the time being.
Now the phone is pissing me off the same way the S4 pissed me off...
Battery life is totally fine, absolutely no complaints at all. My phone lasts for ages except for when I play tons of games on it.
Performance however is quite slow (probably due to lack of RAM).. despite running fstrim, cleaning cache on a weekly basis and using apps like Greenify etc.
The worst thing however is the ridiculous issues I am having with 3G/Data.
I am unsure if it is just my carrier (The largest network in Finland (SONERA)) or if it is my phone.
I made a video here of the EXACT SAME issue with Wifi (data is even WORSE):
http://youtu.be/2zNBV63Dk0U
Basically you see the first 2 pages load up pretty fast. Then what's with the wait on the rest of those pages whilst they are loading?
The speed of my network is 10MB/s up and down. It's a symmetric connection. It shouldn't be slow at all, and ping times are tiny. So why is it taking so long for my phone to resolve the website, regardless of the browser and method of connection (data or wifi) that I use?
Basically my phone will just switch between 3G and H/H+ continuously without actually being connected, or loading pages etc.
So basically I'll be in the middle of the capital city, on Finland's LARGEST network connected to 3G with FULL bars and not have a connection. Yet all around me, people are using their phones without remotely any issue at all on the same network..
Some information about my phone:
Galaxy S 5 (SM-G900F). Stock ROM, never flashed. Towelrooted.
4.4.2. - Baseband G900FXXU1ANE2
Build - KOT49H.G900FXXU1ANE4
Stock Kernel
80+ User Apps installed
Xposed Framework installed
The biggest issue I have is the fact that the Data connection just sucks in 2G or 3G. There's just this huge lag between loading any webpage, where there is literally ZERO data being transferred (I have the speed indicator xposed app), yet the icon just flashes back and forth from 3G to H to H+ and back. No matter what browser I use, and even often on Wi-Fi it's just terrible and there is STILL a huge wait time between pages actually loading. However apps at least seem to download totally fine.
I have my Buffalo N300 router on Wireless N. I am NOT running at 5Ghz, because it drains more battery. My 3G plan is set to 21Mbps, and I should have no throttling or cap. However I RARELY seem to see speeds over 250KB/s and in the centre of Helsinki or anywhere in the outlying (2-3km areas) there's just no data transfer at all. Full bars, but in some cases the entire network will just cut out and say that it is unavailable.
Could it be an issue with my phone's Modem? Could I just flash a newer modem over the current one that I have? The phone is running stock and it shouldn't be so slow, no matter what.
My stupid provider just suggested that I change to a more expensive 4G plan (yeah right, 3G on other providers was never remotely laggy)
Any ideas guys? I'll give you any information that you need to help me out...

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Well what info do you want from me?
I posted a video of how the pages load so slowly even on Wifi. I told you my router. It's a Buffalo N300. I don't have 5Ghz mode on. It's set to Wireless N. My internet speed is 100/100mbps. I think that is plenty of information.
I also gave my complete phone specs. My knox is 1x1 yes. I gave my baseband etc. above.
What exactly do you need to know about my configuration? It's set to use 3G always. I always seem to have bars of 3G (even if it won't connect) but there is NO data transfer at all. You can see in the video that the speed indicator in the taskbar doesn't show any data being transferred. There's just this large amount of time that it does nothing. The page loading/connection stalls and I have to wait. I've tried multiple browsers too like I said, and more than 1 Wi-Fi network.
If I swap back to 3G or 2G (WCDMA/2G) mode. Then the phone still stays on 3G 99.99% of the time, but there's still NO data transfer. On 2G it will work just slow enough that I can send a whatsapp message. But it won't load a webpage, not even slowly.
My carrier I also explained.. Sonera, the biggest carrier here in Finland, I also even explained the data plan I am on. 3G, 21mbps, no throttling, etc.
P.S. The speedtest in my signature, is my HOME WIFI connection. It has NOTHING to do with my data connection. I'm not talking about my DL speed or throughput, besides those are the speeds I get on my COMPUTER. I get slower speeds on my phone. I am talking about the LAG that I get when I try to open a page. I.E. Why does my phone just stall loading something and make me wait for ages for it to finish? Why does my connection just stop, and page loading just stop 40%-60% or whatever through loading something?
What extra info do you need? You keep saying 'phone congifuration' but I just gave you basically everything. What specific 'phone configuration' info do you need to know?
You know what phone I have, exactly what version, how it is rooted, etc. You know my data provider, my wifi and data speeds. You know the issue that I am explaining that I am experiencing and how it happens. Plus a bunch of other information, what is installed on my phone, my router and its set up. etc. etc. etc.
What more do you need?
Thanks for your reply but. Frankly I think I provided more information than most people do about their problems here.
P.S. Here's another video which shows me getting 12.5x slower speeds than I should be:
http://youtu.be/N0aTikEPbPM
Excuse the exasperation and that accompanies my Australian accent

I got some data issues too.in H+ data just won't move like it should.
I'm using saunalahti.
When i open a web page my 3g turns to h+ . I think that's the way i should work
because nothing happens with 3g.

Nothing mostly happens with my 3G either, it has to be on H to do anything. I am starting to think it's an issue with 'Fast Dormancy' and I might go ahead and disable that.

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fffft said:
Yes, you provided considerably more information than most people. Kudos if that makes you feel any better. However as I explained at length it still isn't nearly enough to effectively troubleshoot much. I also spelt out what would be useful to have. Having 60% of the details doesn't complete a puzzle significantly more than 40% would. It narrows things down a bit but you're still in the land of guessing and throwing out common issues hoping that one of them will turn out to be the problem at hand.
There are lots of people who will be happy to pseudo-randomly guess at the problem. And you can try each suggestion in turn until you hopefully hit upon the right one. I'm more interested in methodical troubleshooting which requires much more detailed information. As I described what would facilitate that and you still ask what do I want, I can only assume that you missed reading part of my earlier reply.
Regardless you can either post the details I requested or wait for others to point out how to address commonplace issues that may or may not help your situation.
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Are you for real? Practically all of your replies here are "You haven't given us enough information"
You practically know my phone and my data and Wi-Fi as well as I do, from what I have explained.
Now your reply is just paragraphs of you blabbering on about how I still haven't given you enough information for you to help me. If you think you're being constructive here or something replying like this to other people, you really aren't mate. Yes you did explain at length, three times that I didn't give you enough information. Yet you failed, to explain even ONCE exactly what information you want. Except to say "phone configuration" I mean seriously what? That's the most broad term you could possibly use on the forums here. I've explained my phone config, and- actually you know what, I won't do it again. I've explained everything so much and posted TWO VIDEOS of the issues that I am facing. If you seriously don't know enough about my problem then, with all due respect you are of absolutely no help to me what-so-ever.
The worst thing is, I'm usually a patient person and I am grateful for the help I get from other people in the forums here and anywhere else. But every-so-often someone like you comes around and I can't, for the life of me, even fathom as to how to even communicate with you. All of the information is right there in front of you to provide a second opinion or give your personal advice. Yet you're sticking with "You haven't provided enough information". There's nothing else I can do buddy, save actually giving you my phone and letting you look at it.
Also the way at which you seem to post in that I only seem to have 2 options here is really quite ridiculous. That I can either choose to give you more information (What information EXACTLY?) or basically just wait for other people to guesstimate what the issue could be (which I was totally fine with).
If you mean this information:
Or do any testing that might have revealed patterns in your data and wifi rates e.g. speed and latency tests at different times of the day
- What's the point? I explained here and in the videos that this has been happening all the time, for the past month.
with different providers
- I don't have another data provider to test with, I'm not made of money
direct comparisons to other phones on the same connection
- How the f*ck can I get stuff like this? I'm one person on my own, do you suppose I go stand out on the side of the road with a sign on a highway?
ping plots, service menu details about which bands are active and actual signal strengths or anything like that
- Do I look like a scientist to you? How am I supposed to know, and the phone doesn't give me any sort of way natively to even know any of this information
did you do any searches of forums dealing with specific providers e.g. BBR, Hofo, to see if anyone else is having provider issues?
- Yes and lots of people are having the same issues, even someone else replied to this thread stating he had the same issue
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That is a ridiculous amount of stuff to ask from someone and I have either given you the details already, or you're asking something that isn't physically possible for me to do.
Personally, I think you're going about this whole 'helping people' thing the wrong way. Like there is some choice between getting your 'professional' advice or something or basically just taking hints and suggestions here and there. I don't remotely agree with the way you post on the forums here. I've provided umpteen times more information than just about anyone else on the forum here, and no, that isn't a compliment to myself. It's a fact.
Ugh, this whole situation is just absolutely ridiculous. It's one thing to wrestle with a phone that isn't working correctly, but then when I come to the forums here for advice, I get replies like yours. Supposed helpful replies that are really just basically spam, constant reiteration of a moot point with equally absolutely no clear, or distinct point, subject or purpose to them at all.
Maybe you should take your own advice and be more specific with what information you want from people if you are going to bother to reply to them at all. Rather than just responding continuously with "We need more information". You represent 1 person on the forum here, and your ideas or advice are no more important or relevant than anyone else's. If you're going to try and help someone, don't confuse a person into thinking that they only have 1 source from which they can receive assistance and that they must first comply with your vague requests before they can get any assistance.
As for this now failure of a thread and my now wasted time replying and taking videos perfectly illustrating the problems I am facing with my phone. I am subsequently going to abandon this thread, unsubscribe from future replies and leave it here as both a documented source that there is an on-going issue (as many others have stated) with data and wifi lag and that for anyone else to perhaps understand your methods of posting better. Because I sure as day don't.
Thanks anyway I guess.
As for anyone else with the same issue. I am going to disable 'Fast Dormancy' and see if that solves my problem. Good luck to others facing the same issue.

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ignore fffft he has issues.
have you tried your sim in other phones? do they get good data speeds? if i were you i'd flash a modem update and see if that fixed anything. maybe try a prepaid carrier on your phone and see how its network speeds are.

Happened to me too - could be an app on your phone. Check settings to see which apps or using most battery and background services.
Or do what I did, and get an uninstaller to uninstall 70% of your apps you don't use - could make a massive difference!

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cleanmaster.mguard
Try this
Sent from my SM-G900W8 using XDA Free mobile app

Gosh.... Can you tell us own many more phone are connected to the same cell as you? This is already a difficult issue to troubleshoot, I guess your videos and long posts are useless. How can you distinguish between a mobile provider problem and a s5 problem?
fffft warned you!
Did you tried the cleanmaster solution?

Having the exact same problems in the US with sprint, I can have 3 or 4 bars of signal and apps report network failures and no data connection, I do not usually have an issue on wifi, but it does happen from time to time.
Rooted with towel
no custom recovery
Multiple frozen system apps
Purchased launch day from Sam's club
Xposed installed, I've disabled most of the modules I installed as they don't seem to work, especially any listed as Samsung specific
Still using TW
Often when the data loss issue occurs the 3g or LTE icon in the notification bar completely disappears, but the signal bar stays in 3-6 bars.
Current battery life seems to have no effect on the issue.
Mine is not just data, there are times the entire phone freezes and becomes unresponsive, taking 20-120 seconds to respond to pressing back or home even, and I get no response to pulling down the notification bar.
I do not use any task killers or battery mods or apps, I did notice a significant increase in occurrences approximately 3 weeks ago and the only thing I recall that I did then was to install hangouts dialer.
The troubleshooting I've done makes me believe the device is "detecting" high temps and turning off or slowing the CPU /GPU cores, thereby causing the apparent 'Lag'.
One incident happened last night, where no part of the phone felt hot, my game did not lose connection, but was on Wi-Fi, but I was getting 1 frame every 2+ minutes for 6 or 7 minutes, then the phone rebooted.
I have started making it a habit of opening Rom toolbox and checking the CPU current settings, during these issues I have never seen the CPU max over 1728 MHz.
The only information I located in a cat log was that frames were dropped and how many. Nothing about temperatures, many lines about IP addresses failing to respond. I do not have a saved catlog handy, but attached are a couple screenshots of data fails with good signal.
If you look, you may notice the warning notifications, those are sync errors with Google photos wanting sign in information for alternate accounts I have on the phone and don't want duplicating my phot backup too (some of my games I play 3 or 4 different accounts).
I will be happy to do any testing suggested as soon as I can and provide additional requested info without insults.

Necropost... Still having this issue, I've been on MOAR, Pac ROM, and Slim. 4.1.1, 4.2, & 5.1.1 android versions. Same problem, on Wi-Fi and Sprint. Phone is about to hit 2yrs old in April. Will be my first and last Samsung I guess... I've had a lot, Nexus is next I think...
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How to increase wifi signal on any TW Rom

Just thought I'd share. It's a trick I learned on the Samsung epic OG
No root needed very simple
Go to dialer pad
Enter *#0011#
When the info screen appears hit the menu hard key
You'll see wifi.... Click it
Next you'll see by default powersave mode is enabled. (it sets signal power to 6 out of 10)
Uncheck powersave mode
And that's it. Watch the signal on your wifi in areas where you had maybe 1 bar you'll have 3 now etc.
Enjoy
Sprint GS5 Moars 6.2

This screwed up my battery

OP, Can you undo this if it gives any issues (like the battery one above)?

arozer said:
OP, Can you undo this if it gives any issues (like the battery one above)?
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yes do the exact same thing but check the power save box.
i see no battery difference at all ive been doing it since the samsung epic. in fact theres a way to allow LTE to connect at a higher decibel than normal (then you'll have LTE at farther distances) but i cant find the proper code yet. its under Entry RX
in the dialer codes

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This screwed up my battery
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This is expected IMO. I mean you are physically unchecking "power save" which I believe increases the gain on the amplifier. Unless you are actually suffering from poor wifi signal in an area where there's nothing you can do about it, I would leave it as is. If you're having wifi issues in your home, I would upgrade hardware or add a wifi repeater before messing with the phone.