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[Q] WIFI and USB Tether Sucks on TMOUS

Hi
I am a noob with a rooted TMOUS HTC HD2.
I have the latest KWBR rom installed along with Nexus One FROYO.
The internet connection via USB and Wifi are terrible when I connect the phone normally. Its also slow when I connect via FROYO. I am supposed to get 3G speeds or better; instead it feels like I'm dialing up from 1997. When I had a G1 connections were fast... Any suggestions on what I should do to improve? Are there settings I should tweak? Using a Vaio Netbook laptop.
Thanks.
Cacy

Tell us your actual speed using http://www.dslreports.com/mspeed?jisok=1

Rooted. I swear, between that and HardSPL being called jailbreak im about to shoot someone. If you are HardSPL'd you are NOT rooted, because WinMo doesnt require stupid rooting of any kind to be able to do stuff, outside of SDA application unlocker for a T-Mo branded HD2. Anyways, WiFi routing will always be slower than physically tethering your phone through USB. Keep in mind, cell connection speeds vary wildly from cell to cell, so your mileage will most definately vary as far as speed is concerned. I generally get 1.0MBps down at my house, but like 2 miles down the road I get almost 5...so its just all relative to your location.

boudicon said:
Hi
I am a noob with a rooted TMOUS HTC HD2.
I have the latest KWBR rom installed along with Nexus One FROYO.
The internet connection via USB and Wifi are terrible when I connect the phone normally. Its also slow when I connect via FROYO. I am supposed to get 3G speeds or better; instead it feels like I'm dialing up from 1997. When I had a G1 connections were fast... Any suggestions on what I should do to improve? Are there settings I should tweak? Using a Vaio Netbook laptop.
Thanks.
Cacy
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What do you mean by rooted? Also wondering if you have tried different Wifi router programs and which one you are currently using.
I'm surfing the web fast when connected to my TMOUS HD2 on my laptop.

If you read the android development thread where you got your android build I'm sure the 1st post states android is still in it's "development phase". Nothing is stable about it, and 3G is not working perfectly.

It's the netbook
or it could be the signal quality

Well I would not Generalize that tethering with T-mobile sucks, because this is the speed I get when tethered with my "rooted" HD2. Oh yeah, it's also "jailbroken", and of course it comes that way from the store.

masondoctorjt said:
Well I would not Generalize that tethering with T-mobile sucks, because this is the speed I get when tethered with my "rooted" HD2. Oh yeah, it's also "jailbroken", and of course it comes that way from the store.
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RAGE. RISING. Preparing to launch ICBMs in...three....two....one......

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RAGE. RISING. Preparing to launch ICBMs in...three....two....one......
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NO! Let ME take care of this!
Dropping the bomb in 3......2......1.....
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bye bye

While I completely agree that we all have to start somewhere. I really hate it when people just throw terms around like jailbreak and rooting . I swear for a smartphone , the iPhone has really dumbed people down
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PhoneConnect247 said:
I swear for a smartphone , the iPhone has really dumbed people down
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Yeah, I know. Not every hack/crack/exploit done to a phone has to relate to these iPhone terms.

Exactly my point, the iPhone has made cracks and hacks available to the general public. We had HardSPL's since WAY before the iPhone was even a thought, and yet it's now called jailbreaking. Pisses me off it does. People come the iPhone to an ACTUAL smartphone, and think they have to jump through UNIX hoops to actual LOAD APPS onto it. Losers.

ashasaur said:
Exactly my point, the iPhone has made cracks and hacks available to the general public. We had HardSPL's since WAY before the iPhone was even a thought, and yet it's now called jailbreaking. Pisses me off it does. People come the iPhone to an ACTUAL smartphone, and think they have to jump through UNIX hoops to actual LOAD APPS onto it. Losers.
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Exactly. The general public separate from us here at xda-developers didn't even know about smartphone hacking 'till the iPod touch/iPhone combination came into play, and now they relate EVERY hack to it. Makes me wanna nuke 'em, like I said in a previous post
The iPhone is pure crap. Add a 1GHz processor, more RAM, a GPS and more all you want, but in the end, crap is still crap except it's faster crap.
I swear, the iPhone community has dumbed down every hacking community. Oh sure, it's easy. Flash a new Recovery image to your iPhone/iPod and you're done. I bet that if you asked an iPhone user to root a G1 on 1.6 they wouldn't even last 2 seconds. They'd probably **** up the phone so bad it would probably have to be JTAG'd to recover it.
And some of the users of iPhones are hipster d-bags. I love it. Someone tried to wave their iPhone in front of my face talking about their phone is better than my HD2. A nice 20 second start for Windows and a nice fast boot into Android shut their damn mouth. I told 'em, it doesn't matter if you have a front camera. Who uses it all that often. It doesn't matter that your phone has a 1GHz processor. The interface is some simplistic Mac OS X port. It's what you can DO with the phone that matters. They fling the whole App Store thing in my face. I showed them how over 30% of their stinkin' App Store is full of FART applications. I start up XDA WiFi Sharing for tethering, tell them to do the same: "$20 more dollars a month for USB tethering". I laughed in their face and walked away
(Oh, and the dialer completely froze on the iPhone too )
boudicon said:
Hi
I am a noob with a rooted TMOUS HTC HD2.
I have the latest KWBR rom installed along with Nexus One FROYO.
The internet connection via USB and Wifi are terrible when I connect the phone normally. Its also slow when I connect via FROYO. I am supposed to get 3G speeds or better; instead it feels like I'm dialing up from 1997. When I had a G1 connections were fast... Any suggestions on what I should do to improve? Are there settings I should tweak? Using a Vaio Netbook laptop.
Thanks.
Cacy
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Now I tested your slow speed claims, and I can say. Your netbook is slow. Look at my results
Proof:

Damn straight, the iPhone has turned the masses into thinking they can "hack" something because they can plug in their phone and hit that damn "Restore" button. iPhone users in general are d-bags in my experience. Give me the days of the G4 Wizard and never knowing if your flash is gonna kill your device if you look at it the wrong way before you give me the iPhone. You gotta love how they always use the app store as a plus...well I don't know about you, but ive got like 50+ programs on my HD2...all WinMo freeware from places like pocketpcfreeware.com and from here on XDA...not a damn dime spent on programs. Oh and I can install stuff to my SD card straight out of the box. And tether. And install themes. And use Flash. Or another browser that isn't Safari. And use custom ringtones...that I make myself out of downloaded songs...for free. /end rant.

ashasaur said:
Damn straight, the iPhone has turned the masses into thinking they can "hack" something because they can plug in their phone and hit that damn "Restore" button. iPhone users in general are d-bags in my experience. Give me the days of the G4 Wizard and never knowing if your flash is gonna kill your device if you look at it the wrong way before you give me the iPhone. You gotta love how they always use the app store as a plus...well I don't know about you, but ive got like 50+ programs on my HD2...all WinMo freeware from places like pocketpcfreeware.com and from here on XDA...not a damn dime spent on programs. Oh and I can install stuff to my SD card straight out of the box. And tether. And install themes. And use Flash. Or another browser that isn't Safari. And use custom ringtones...that I make myself out of downloaded songs...for free. /end rant.
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And Flash. And Android. Come on, we gotta rub it in
"Give me the days of the G4 Wizard and never knowing if your flash is gonna kill your device if you look at it the wrong way before you give me the iPhone. "
Oh those were the days. I remember one time I thought a ROM flash died in the SPL and Radio stage. My heart sank. But then the magic number, 11% came up
As a matter of fact, it's still those days for us T-Mobile US HD2 owners and those horrid .51 radios
Someone who doesn't know flashes a .51 on a TMOUS. Boom. No HD2. A pure OH SHI----- moment.

Ahh the old 11%, if it passed that you where GOLDEN. If it got stuck there...no more Wizard!

ashasaur said:
If it got stuck there...no more Wizard!
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Yep. That's when you were screwed. I was hesitant to start flashing phones due to the fact I lost a $100 motherboard to a failed BIOS update

ashasaur said:
iPhone users in general are d-bags in my experience.
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Speaking on this, I'm gonna go undercover to the Apple store today. Make a video. And put it on Youtube.

No OTA yet.

Am I wasting my time calling TMO about why I haven't gotten the OTA update yet or is there a chance they can actually do something about it?
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pdxrealtor said:
Am I wasting my time calling TMO about why I haven't gotten the OTA update yet or is there a chance they can actually do something about it?
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Just update it yourself. It's a pretty easy task.

Yea if you check out the development section there is like 10 posts for doing it manually doesn't take long at all why wait just do it yourself I did on the 3rd works great
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2nd that
love the wifi calling feature works great

I've seen that option since the 3 rd I just want mine straight from TMO.
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pdxrealtor said:
I've seen that option since the 3 rd I just want mine straight from TMO.
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Yeah I always did the manual updates on my Nexus and now I'm waiting to actually see what an official OTA looks like. That's the only reason I'm still holding out on the manual update... I'm starting to get anxious for the update at this point, it just doesn't seem to like me

i havent recived mine either. been doing the "check in" thing since it started, but nada. is there anything we can do to force the update? i dont want to manually do it either, as the guy above me said, i wanna see what a normal ota is like

I'm in the same category. No update yet. I don't even know what other prompts you are all talking about lol.
Hurry up T-Mobile! Does anyone have it confirmed that Wi Fi calling WILL use your plan minutes?

No OTA here yet either. I'm in los angeles, I figured I would have gotten it by now.
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It even says on the notification screen it'll use plan minutes.
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c0nvel said:
It even says on the notification screen it'll use plan minutes.
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Thanks man! I didn't know because I didn't get it yet. At least that question is answered. I'm in Long Beach, CA I thought I would've gotten it by now.... Hmm...

from what i can tell seems like not many on the west coast ahve gotten it yet, as i live in LA also. has anyone in los angeles recieved it yet?

I still haven't gotten my ota yet.. I really thought I was the only one. I really hope i get it soon.. I'm tired of these random shutoffs and I want my wifi calling! >_

I live in Chicago and have not gotten it yet. I will update it manually later this week when I'm not as busy.

Seattle. Still waiting. I don't think it has to do with your location though.
Does doing it manually update the radio as well?

In Philly and no update yet. Spoke with Tmob CS and they can't/won't do a manual push. I asked what next steps are starting tomorrow and she said to call their technical support line. I somehow doubt that all these folks are going to get it in the next 11-12 hrs magically.

Well it seems I'm not the only one. I don't have the tIME to call right now, but like others I'm getting anxious.
My call quality OS spotty at best and is like to see what the radio update does for that of anything. Plus the WiFi calling would be cool.
Waiting waiting waiting.......
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As far as I know doing it manually is identical to waiting for the OTA.

Just update manually. There's nothing magical about getting the OTA pushed to you compared to doing it youself. Its like picking up a pizza yourself instead of waiting for the delivery guy. You're still getting the same pizza.
Ok, now I'm hungry for pizza.
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I live in Atlanta. I am still waiting as well.

Heads Up! 4G in Miami Lakes Now

I know this probably should have been posted over in the General section but it seems to be pretty inactive over there and I wanted to make sure as many of the people who might benefit from this would see it as possible.
I'm in Miami (more specifically the Hialeah and Miami Lakes area), where 4G isn't technically switched on yet but just for ha-has I turned on my 4G radio a couple of nights ago and lo and behold... 4G!
Go ahead and give it a try, but before you do, remember to go into Settings > About Phone > System Updates and update your PRL and profile so that your phone will know to pick up on the new towers.
Gotta love the new speeds!
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Lucky! I'm still waiting for Detroit and surrounding areas to get it. I'm not a big fan of paying for something I don't get. But, this phone is worth it especially considering my last phone was a 528mhz TP2

lol this is as general as possible. maybe if people put all the threads in general that belong there maybe it will be more active. And now the mods are gonna haveta move this.

I'm in the Miami area too and they have it at FIU and a lot of south miami. Still not in Doral though

Mods, if the thread needs to be moved or deleted, I apologize.
I'm eternally grateful for the help my fellow XDAers have provided me with over the past year and I'm happy that I've been able to help a few of them back. After all, that's what we're all here for, right?
I love XDA. I truly do. It has changed the way I view my mobile phone and that's major. What I don't love is all the unnecessary snark that I've come to expect from this place. It's not helpful, it's uncalled for, and quite frankly, it's so juvenile I could vomit.
I know such is the nature of the beast (the beast being the internet), that with the anonymity we're provided behind screen names and avatars we feel it's okay to be disrespectful to each other and bully other people but that's just not the way I treat people. Online or offline.

MLHickey said:
I'm in the Miami area too and they have it at FIU and a lot of south miami. Still not in Doral though
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Oooh awesome! I'm find myself in the FIU area a lot so now I know to keep it on when I'm down there. Thanks!

noticed the same today, I figured "why not give it a try" then when I saw that it connected I didn't believe it... it's rly fast
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I live in S. Florida and 4g has already been turn on in several spots for months.

For those interested in really helping, download the 4g mapping application from the market. It is made by sensorly... It displays current maps provided by their users and your can choose to submit anonymous days to them to help make the maps better.
The data has different settings so out can always collect our just when the app is working or not at all
Ps.
I have been in miami gardens drive area all week and I also had service. According to hoax map they have almost completely coveted the 95 and surrounding areas
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acegolfer said:
I live in S. Florida and 4g has already been turn on in several spots for months.
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Yeah, so I'd heard. Unfortunately I just wasn't in some of those areas until now. Finally!

smeyerhuky said:
For those interested in really helping, download the 4g mapping application from the market. It is made by sensorly... It displays current maps provided by their users and your can choose to submit anonymous days to them to help make the maps better.
The data has different settings so out can always collect our just when the app is working or not at all
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I have been in miami gardens drive area all week and I also had service. According to hoax map they have almost completely coveted the 95 and surrounding areas
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I had no idea about this app! Thanks for the heads up!

I'm in Davie and just got my first 4G signal in my home a couple weeks ago. Haven't tried it too much outside of my complex.

No need to update PRL or profile. That's all for 3g and 1x connectivity.

Is it js me or is 4g down?

rjpaez said:
Is it js me or is 4g down?
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Not just you. I don't know where you are but for me, I've been getting 4G for a few days now at home (Miami Lakes) and about half an hour ago, it disconnected from 4G and hasn't picked it back up again

kindaskimpy said:
Not just you. I don't know where you are but for me, I've been getting 4G for a few days now at home (Miami Lakes) and about half an hour ago, it disconnected from 4G and hasn't picked it back up again
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Ditto, I'm in the Hialeah Gardens area (other side of the bridge) near Hialeah Gardens Blvd. tested a few days ago... got excited and now it's gone
How was your signal indoors btw?

rjpaez said:
Ditto, I'm in the Hialeah Gardens area (other side of the bridge) near Hialeah Gardens Blvd. tested a few days ago... got excited and now it's gone
How was your signal indoors btw?
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Inside my apartment I was getting 1 or 2 bars out of the possible 3. Mostly it stuck to 2 bars, it didn't go down to 1 bar often.
On a semi-related note, they should add a couple of bars to the icon to represent signal reception a little more accurately.

Check the Evo General forum... there's a very long & active thread for "Miami 4G" (mods... can this thread be merged in & the "Evo" Miami 4G thread cross-linked so it'll appear in both forums simultaneously?)
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Check the Evo General forum... there's a very long & active thread for "Miami 4G" (mods... can this thread be merged in & the "Evo" Miami 4G thread cross-linked so it'll appear in both forums simultaneously?)
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Great tip. Thanks, bitbang3r. Also check out the Map Viewer app from the market, search "4G" or "Map Viewer" and you should find it. It's developed by Sensorly.com and it's immensely useful and accurate.

As of today, 4G is officially turned on in Miami. Yay.
Problem with that is that if you check the coverage map, you'll see 4G coverage is pretty spotty. My area isn't "officially" covered yet but a few days ago, a lot of us, were picking up 4G signal in these "not covered" areas of Miami and then just before they flipped the official switch, our coverage disappeared. WTF Sprint?!

Samsung App fixes GPS *official*

I just saw on Twitter that Samsung has released an app to "officially" fix the GPS problems. Check it out for yourself and see if it does the trick. Post results
Official Link to Sammy
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It's NOT a GPS fix!!!
The app is just restoring the lbstestmode settings to default.

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It's NOT a GPS fix!!!
The app is just restoring the lbstestmode settings to default.
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figures. did not try yet since im stuck indoors.

Huh no kidding.
Wanna bet its the same setting changes we've been passing around here since JFD?
I hope its not and its a real solid software/firmware fix. Some have never gotten theres to work.
I'm real interested in what this really does and can it be applied to a custom ROM?
Edit: took a minute or two to post, see above for answers. Drat. Man if thats it, its weak. Way weak.

12paq said:
Huh no kidding.
Wanna bet its the same setting changes we've been passing around here since JFD?
I hope its not and its a real solid software/firmware fix. Some have never gotten theres to work.
I'm real interested in what this really does and can it be applied to a custom ROM?
Edit: took a minute or two to post, see above for answers. Drat. Man if thats it, its weak. Way weak.
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It's not a mystery. Just read the linked doc.
# Does the application contain new values for GPS?
* No. The application only resets settings to factory defaults and then writes data in setting file.

I have to at least give Sammy a tiny bit of credit for trying. Even if its just an app that does the same settings clear that we had for a while here. I mean hell, look how long we had Froyo here, yet to get from Sammy.
Maybe a conspiracy or a plot. Follow me here,
1. Problems arise on phone
2. XDA fixes it
3. Samsung then releases an official fix similar to the XDA fix
1. Froyo "mysteriously" leaks out.
2. XDA gets it and makes it phone friendly
3. Samsung gets workable copies and makes the official Rom
Maybe Samsung just wants to indirectly use XDA to fix all the problems. Saves them some development money.

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I have to at least give Sammy a tiny bit of credit for trying. Even if its just an app that does the same settings clear that we had for a while here. I mean hell, look how long we had Froyo here, yet to get from Sammy.
Maybe a conspiracy or a plot. Follow me here,
1. Problems arise on phone
2. XDA fixes it
3. Samsung then releases an official fix similar to the XDA fix
1. Froyo "mysteriously" leaks out.
2. XDA gets it and makes it phone friendly
3. Samsung gets workable copies and makes the official Rom
Maybe Samsung just wants to indirectly use XDA to fix all the problems. Saves them some development money.
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If that's the case, Samsung needs to be more generous with their leaks, give us the Kernel Source like HTC does for their phone plus all the other different drivers. While Samsung's at it, might as well give us the source for RFS, so we can eliminate it for good.

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If that's the case, Samsung needs to be more generous with their leaks, give us the Kernel Source like HTC does for their phone plus all the other different drivers. While Samsung's at it, might as well give us the source for RFS, so we can eliminate it for good.
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RFS is not the problem. It's merely something that sounds good. RFS OMG!
Have you tried the Galaxy Tab? Where is the lag on that thing running the same file system? Exactly.. anyway
LBSTestMode settings aren't to be messed with. OBVIOUSLY.. this has nothing to do with anything XDA does. When will you folks get it? Samsung doesn't get fixes from XDA. Nearly everything we get is from Samsung. Hacks on XDA don't get packaged up and sent to our phones. If you will recall, JIx fixed aGPS and a number of other problems with the GPS software. Not XDA forums' developers. JK2 is obviously something Samsung has ditched, left over scraps of what we will get..

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RFS is not the problem. It's merely something that sounds good. RFS OMG!
Have you tried the Galaxy Tab? Where is the lag on that thing running the same file system? Exactly.. anyway
LBSTestMode settings aren't to be messed with. OBVIOUSLY.. this has nothing to do with anything XDA does. When will you folks get it? Samsung doesn't get fixes from XDA. Nearly everything we get is from Samsung. Hacks on XDA don't get packaged up and sent to our phones. If you will recall, JIx fixed aGPS and a number of other problems with the GPS software. Not XDA forums' developers. JK2 is obviously something Samsung has ditched, left over scraps of what we will get..
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they were just 1/2 joking around is the way I took it, lighten up dude.

heygrl said:
RFS is not the problem. It's merely something that sounds good. RFS OMG!
Have you tried the Galaxy Tab? Where is the lag on that thing running the same file system? Exactly.. anyway
LBSTestMode settings aren't to be messed with. OBVIOUSLY.. this has nothing to do with anything XDA does. When will you folks get it? Samsung doesn't get fixes from XDA. Nearly everything we get is from Samsung. Hacks on XDA don't get packaged up and sent to our phones. If you will recall, JIx fixed aGPS and a number of other problems with the GPS software. Not XDA forums' developers. JK2 is obviously something Samsung has ditched, left over scraps of what we will get..
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seriously. Take is easy. It's pretty obvious that they dont really use XDA as a free code fixing source. Just messin around. Like my *official* on the titles makes it so its a guarantee. All in good fun.

Now on Engadget too
http://www.engadget.com/2010/11/30/samsung-releases-gps-restore-app-for-captivate-and-other-galax/

Fail
Epic fail. doesn't work. tell me to go to open sky.
I am returning the device.
the GPS faulty and samsung have been playing with the costumers for 6 months.
I can't believe that they released an app to restore settings.
it's so lame. i can't believe it.

ohadbasan said:
Epic fail. doesn't work. tell me to go to open sky.
I am returning the device.
the GPS faulty and samsung have been playing with the costumers for 6 months.
I can't believe that they released an app to restore settings.
it's so lame. i can't believe it.
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Yeah, this was good for some lolz.
This is the last straw for me; I've decided to ditch this phone due to the poor gps performance and sell it while it's still worth something. It's clear now that samsung either can't or won't get gps working well enough to meet my expectations, which were set by other smart phones (iphone 3g, nokia n95, etc).
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This makes a lot of sense to me. Samsung fixed the gps problems in the JI series update, but so many people messed up their settings after reading false information here on XDA. And many others installed custom roms with so-called"fixes" that in reality just needed up their settings.
So who can help those people now? The "devs" who are just cooking up rom images have moved on to screwing up peoples phones in other ways.
They are just trying to clean up the mess that XDA created...
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if I were a person with a faulty GPS i would've returned it a long time ago.
My GPS has been fine since JI2
QQ MOAR ppl

Ok, I messed with the GPS settings months ago, before the last OTA update from Tmobile. Did the OTA update change these settings? I havent messed with anything since the OTA update.
What should the settings be anyway?

androidmonkey said:
Ok, I messed with the GPS settings months ago, before the last OTA update from Tmobile. Did the OTA update change these settings? I havent messed with anything since the OTA update.
What should the settings be anyway?
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Dude just run the attached apk... That's what it is for!!
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grennis said:
This makes a lot of sense to me. Samsung fixed the gps problems in the JI series update, but so many people messed up their settings after reading false information here on XDA. And many others installed custom roms with so-called"fixes" that in reality just needed up their settings.
So who can help those people now? The "devs" who are just cooking up rom images have moved on to screwing up peoples phones in other ways.
They are just trying to clean up the mess that XDA created...
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^ ^
^this^

Doesn't fix anything, I still can't get a GPS lock outside.

androidmonkey said:
Ok, I messed with the GPS settings months ago, before the last OTA update from Tmobile. Did the OTA update change these settings? I havent messed with anything since the OTA update.
What should the settings be anyway?
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androidmonkey-
Here is my recollection. I bought my Vibrant the first week it came out and it took me a few days to realize that the GPS was highly unreliable and often essentially non-functional, so I, too, messed with the settings. As a result of the JI6 update, several of the settings were changed: 1) they were different from what the phone came with stock, and 2) different from what I had changed them to. Not everything got changed, and I can't document anymore what was and wasn't affected. But that was the first thing I checked once the update was installed. My phone is not rooted. Since the update, I've had good GPS, typically: Lock on 8-9 out of 11-12 satellites in about 20 seconds in any weather (inside lock takes about a minute and I need to be relatively close to a window); accuracy within 20 ft, sometimes less than 15; navigation stays on track.
Here are my settings now for LBS Test Mode
Server FQDN Type: Auto Config
Server: h-slp.mnc260.mcc310.pub.3gpp
Server Port: 7275
SUPL Secure Socket: On
AGPS Mode: SUPL
Also: MS Based; Hot Start; GPS Plus On; Dynamic accuracy 50; Skyhook Off

Verizon FINALLY Gets Android 11 Rolling!

Just read an article that T-Mobile and AT&T have rolled out Android 3.0 so I decided to check.
Lo' and behold, Verizon is right in lock step!
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Got it as well and so far it's running smoothly

You guys have any luck when accessing the Chat Settings in Samsung Messages or are you getting an error as well?

pimpmaneaton said:
You guys have any luck when accessing the Chat Settings in Samsung Messages or are you getting an error as well?
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Yeah getting an error here.

denson9874 said:
Yeah getting an error here.
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That's a different one than I am getting.

Man I haven't got the update yet and I been checking everyday lol

Is there any reason why the firmware still isn't able to download through Frija or elsewhere?

Got Mine

Got the update as well, and also got the error message when trying to use the chat features in Samsung Messages. Ran around with Verizon and Samsung and the gist of it is that it's a Samsung Messages error that will need an app update for.
I don't know if I want to use it anymore, though, because I thought it was going to use the Google RCS but it looks like it's only going to use the VZW version which, my understanding is, only works with other VZW customers with the approved phones. So looks like I'll stick with Google Messages.

what finally??? the whole world is getting it in January.

adj998 said:
Is there any reason why the firmware still isn't able to download through Frija or elsewhere?
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I have the link to my uploaded firmware, downloaded from Frija. Here you go.

denson9874 said:
I have the link to my uploaded firmware, downloaded from Frija. Here you go.
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I appreciate the reference but the VZW firmware is CTL4 and the update comes with a way to enable low band 5G so I need that specific firmware, I appreciate the help though!

adj998 said:
I appreciate the reference but the VZW firmware is CTL4 and the update comes with a way to enable low band 5G so I need that specific firmware, I appreciate the help though!
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I'm pretty low band 5G is enabled on CTL2 as well

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I'm pretty low band 5G is enabled on CTL2 as well
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yeah, I decided to say **** it and just flash CTL2. If I have to, I'll roll back in the future and reupdate to be on official VZW. It's not like I haven't done it before lol

adj998 said:
yeah, I decided to say **** it and just flash CTL2. If I have to, I'll roll back in the future and reupdate to be on official VZW. It's not like I haven't done it before lol
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Lol join the f**k and flash crew. It's almost customary for me to download every firmware for each compatible region and see what flashes and what doesn't lol. Call me reckless.

denson9874 said:
Lol join the f**k and flash crew. It's almost customary for me to download every firmware for each compatible region and see what flashes and what doesn't lol. Call me reckless.
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Right? Lol I still can't get 5G though, I've already swapped 6 SIM cards and nothing. It'll stick for a little while with the new SIM but after a reboot I get sent back to LTE, not even LTE+. Which is weird considering Spectrum uses the exact same towers/firmware as Verizon which is why I was confused as to why I didn't receive the CTL4 update.

adj998 said:
Right? Lol I still can't get 5G though, I've already swapped 6 SIM cards and nothing. It'll stick for a little while with the new SIM but after a reboot I get sent back to LTE, not even LTE+. Which is weird considering Spectrum uses the exact same towers/firmware as Verizon which is why I was confused as to why I didn't receive the CTL4 update.
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That's odd. I also have the tendency to swap between LTE then 5G but generally it only occurs when I'm on Wi-Fi. After disabling it, it will stays on 5G low band. Might just be the area because VZW just flipped the switch in my area maybe a couple of weeks ago.
This was from 5 minutes ago:
This was right afterwards:
So, it changes quite a bit at times.

I got the update using Verizon firmware. The phone feels fast and 5G low band is the same as before. Now the things I dislike:
1. The Samsung clock font used on the AOD, lockscreen, and notification is a throwback to the S3 days and looks cartoony. The Roboto font was cleaner and more consistent.
2. The battery life is terrible so far. I'm dropping about 10% per hour whereas I could go a full 24 hours before.
I'm going to see if rolling back via ODIN works. Might see if the November Android 10 firmware for the U1 has low band 5G support.

denson9874 said:
That's odd. I also have the tendency to swap between LTE then 5G but generally it only occurs when I'm on Wi-Fi. After disabling it, it will stays on 5G low band. Might just be the area because VZW just flipped the switch in my area maybe a couple of weeks ago.
This was from 5 minutes ago:
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This was right afterwards:
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So, it changes quite a bit at times.
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Hmmm might be because I'm on spectrum, so I'm using verizon network but yet at the same time I'm not verizon? I'm constantly stuck on LTE and the speeds, well pretty much suck. I don't complain much as my medical condition keeps me at home 24/7 anyways and I have 200Mbps wifi so I'm not too worried. My only issue is that I paid for a 5G device so I kinda want to see what the hype is about 5G speeds.

adj998 said:
Hmmm might be because I'm on spectrum, so I'm using verizon network but yet at the same time I'm not verizon? I'm constantly stuck on LTE and the speeds, well pretty much suck. I don't complain much as my medical condition keeps me at home 24/7 anyways and I have 200Mbps wifi so I'm not too worried. My only issue is that I paid for a 5G device so I kinda want to see what the hype is about 5G speeds.
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I get what you mean. I don't think we'll get 5G UW anytime soon in my area but the next closest place that supports it is ATL, so at some point in time I'll go up that way to test what the whole hype is about. I generally use wifi as well, so I got the 20 ultra for the 108MP and future proofing, especially when I get BL unlock and root.