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need help with problematic friend not liking hd2

so as it comes to be, my friend former iphone 3g owner decided to pick up the htc hd2 from tmobile, all went well with it for the first couple days, but now shes constantly complaining about email connectivity issues, and her email will randomly dissapear and not be able to connect and slow lagginess on the phone causes her to throw temper tantrums . also for some reason her music is not showing up correctly... on top of that shes using att on the hd2 unlocked , all the settings have been configured but the rom is still on the stock tmobile rom.. so my question to you guys is what would be her best bet at a rom which is extremely user friendly and doesnt have too many options (so basically something like the tmobile rom without the tmobile bloatware and settings on it) something liek a stock hd2 rom , but i know i cant put that because of the radio issues... if anyone can help id greatly appreciate it because i know the true capabilities of this phone and unfortunatly im flashing a ne rom every day, she wants something she can use daily , stable , fast and super user friendly

Try flashing Kumar's rom its the closest feel to the stock rom that I have found. What type of email is she using? I use active sync with gmail and I found that it works the best because its a push email setup. Also you have to remember that since she is on at&t she will not get the 3g speeds so data is going to be slow.

well the data speed is ok and she uses yahoo, but just randomly her emails will get erased or shell get synchronization errors, even though her internet works.. its truly something that confuses the living hell out of me , and which kumar are we talking about what flavor ?

alleyezondisromo said:
well the data speed is ok and she uses yahoo, but just randomly her emails will get erased or shell get synchronization errors, even though her internet works.. its truly something that confuses the living hell out of me , and which kumar are we talking about what flavor ?
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I run Kumar premium and its the best to my liking. First thing she needs to do is get rid of yahoo mail, its crap. With my clients that have yahoo have nothing but problems, everyone else is fine. Tell her to get gmail works great and is super easy to set up.

try telling a female to change her ways and tell me how that goes hahahha

I have the same setup. I have an unlocked TMOUS HD2 that I'm using on AT&T's carrier network. I didn't like the stock rom as it had tons of useless apps I would never use. So I HPSL'ed it and flashed it with Kumar's Lite 1.9 WWE rom. Try that and see if she likes that. Also let her know that some of the stalling and other issues could be because of the faulty/laggy MicroSD card. If she still experiences issues, have her take out her sd card for a while to see if she still experiences it. If she doesn't then she's got a bad card. Some people do, some people don't. The only problem with the lite rom is it is exactly that...Lite! So if she wants swype she will have to install that seperately. Same for Cookie tabs and other things.

Kumar's ROM is definitely the best that I've used so far. Also, see what radio she's running and possibly try flashing to a different one to see if that makes a difference.

I'm scared to move to a new rom, because im dependant on wifi tethering

Can someone give me a recomendation one which rom to download where internet sharing through usb will work.. straight away from flashing?
If there aren't any.. how about a rom version that'll have wifi tethering working straight out of the box?
I want to flash a new rom because Im using DC and I seem to be dependant on an un updated version of wifi tether and overclocking/underclocking seems buggy on this version.
I'd like to be able to use the internet through some means without tethering over heating my phone( and underclocking seems the solution) but at the same time I seem to be only able to get a maximum of 40kbps as is
So I'm in the market... I figure internet sharing through usb might be a better solution...
Any comments on how fast it works or if it heats up the phone like wifi and drains the battery faster then it charges it???
On a seperate note.. does wifi tethering mess up the initialization of the battery so that it seems like it has less life or says full when its not.. or have I just been really putting the beating on it?

PDANet works without even needing to root.

downloading now... Although I did notice a comment that says doesn't work on gnu/linux I will find out.

You can always download a new ROM directly off your phone.. I usually do it so I don't have to transfer it. I e-mail myself the link, go to it on my phone, download, move it to root, nandroid backup, wipe, flash, tah dah.

very good point
http://www.humans-enabled.com/2009/12/how-to-tether-your-verizon-droid-as.html
I followed these instructions in the video at the bottom...
It works...as long as my phones screen is on.. and then again it wants to go ridiculously slow at times and act worse than dialup...
I've noticed the same thing even through the tethering... is the sprint network extremely bogged down at the moment or is it just me???
Or let me guess... my bill was due yesterday and they are screwing with my data when I need the net to make the money to pay the bill

Aloysius 2.1 is my favorite, I've tried a lot of the others, it seems fastest and wifi tether works great

I flashed an Old DamageControl Rom to get a different PRI, then I flashed back to RegawMOD 2.1t which is my daily ROM, and now I don't even need wifi tethering, just connect to PC via USB, select internet sharing, and away I go! Best method for highest speeds.

jerry43812 said:
I flashed an Old DamageControl Rom to get a different PRI, then I flashed back to RegawMOD 2.1t which is my daily ROM, and now I don't even need wifi tethering, just connect to PC via USB, select internet sharing, and away I go! Best method for highest speeds.
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Are you talking about the one with the verizon PRI
Edit. When I replied to this, the site was still the old one and once I was done it looked completely different,

HD2 has useless 3G ? Trouble initializing connection upon request

Hey, I have a serious problem with my hd2 that nakes it practically useless as an internet device.
every time i try to connect to the internet using msn, opera, rss, youtube etc it wont even try to connect and switch radio to H.. only after trying a few times it randomly works. like theres a problem with requesting 3g.
I have tried it on various roms and radios, task29, you name it.
This makes me really want to sell the device but hopefully someone can help me keep it because its.mostly good !
thanks for any tip!

Silencer23 said:
Hey, I have a serious problem with my hd2 that nakes it practically useless as an internet device.
every time i try to connect to the internet using msn, opera, rss, youtube etc it wont even try to connect and switch radio to H.. only after trying a few times it randomly works. like theres a problem with requesting 3g.
I have tried it on various roms and radios, task29, you name it.
This makes me really want to sell the device but hopefully someone can help me keep it because its.mostly good !
thanks for any tip!
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have u tried hooking up to wi-fi?
try switching sim cards with some1 else who has a data plan
1) the same provider as u
2) different provider as u
if 1 & 2 works, it might be ur sim card
if only 2 works, mayb u wanna give ur provider a call..
hope it helps..

Silencer23 said:
Hey, I have a serious problem with my hd2 that nakes it practically useless as an internet device.
every time i try to connect to the internet using msn, opera, rss, youtube etc it wont even try to connect and switch radio to H.. only after trying a few times it randomly works. like theres a problem with requesting 3g.
I have tried it on various roms and radios, task29, you name it.
This makes me really want to sell the device but hopefully someone can help me keep it because its.mostly good !
thanks for any tip!
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I would suggest trying a friends sim card (preferably a different network) and seeing if you can narrow the problem down to either the phone or your service provider

That is a good idea, will do !
Any other suggestions while I search for a friend ?

don't know about winmo, but I was walking with a friend, when suddenly she asked me to download a song, I normally never use 3G, because data isn't standard in my plan, so I have to additionally pay for it, and I downloaded 20 mb in 3 minutes, so I'm not saying this is really fast, but as far as I'm concerned, it's a good speed for browsing. As stated above, maybe buy a sim from another operator, with a reload card system.. those are cheap. Test it out, changes between ops are huge. Depending on how to coverage is in your area...

[Q] HELP No mobile internet on custom ROMs

Hi, I have used many ROMs to find out what is best but after some use of most ROMs (all froyo), I have noticed that no matter what I do, mobile internet won't turn on. It usually happens after the second reboot and various methods of toggling the mobile internet fail toturn it on, even when they say that the internet is connected.
The problem is that I have decided that my favourite MOD is a 2.2 (froydvillain) and the fact that I have no internet is not helping.
Basically, can someone help or is it a Hardware fault?
-- will updating my Radio help?

Hmmm, strange. I have no idea why it works first but then stops after a few reboots, I'm using FroydVillain and internet is 100% ok.
Yeah it is always recommended to have the latest radio,... give it a try, cant hurt can it, and you can always roll back to an older one if the update causes issues.
http://www.villainrom.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?307-radio-roms-download-links

[Q] I keep getting: - "Data Connectivity Problem - The server failed to communicate"

[Q] I keep getting: - "Data Connectivity Problem - The server failed to communicate"
"Data Connectivity Problem - The server failed to communicate. Please try again later"
I keep getting this message when I try to connect to some websites.
How can I overcome this situation please??
I have searched this and other forums but not found the answer.
I have tried resetting - power offs - etc, etc but this message keeps appearing and I remain totally unable to get onto some sites that I need to spend a lot of time on.
I am in UK on o2 network but use wifi most of the time.
Help please.

I have also now tried sim cards from Tesco Network and Vodafone Network but still get the same result.
Please help me if you can

What rom are you using? The JMG rom for example has wifi connectivity issues. Or are you having trouble using cellular network?

Not sure what ROM I am using (i am unsure of how to find this out) and yes I still get same issue when using cellular network.

The problem is your browser is not compatible with your webserver. I had this problem back in blackberry days. Download dolphin or opera to see if a different browser fixes your issue.

ziffos said:
Not sure what ROM I am using (i am unsure of how to find this out) and yes I still get same issue when using cellular network.
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I suggest for you to search around for a APN setting that suits your network provider. Sometimes it may be caused by that.

Wrong apn settings would keep you from even connecting to your cellular network. You wouldn't be able to get any message.

Same here
I've had my tab for only a few weeks, and have had a very shaky wifi connection because of the same error you get.
With the wifi I can logon no problems, but I continue to get the error you mentioned. The stock browser is essentially useless with this, so I tried many others. Dolphin HD, Opera Mini & Mobile, Miren, and Firefox beta were mostly better, but still not really useable. The best I found (even though I think some of the others are better browsers) is Skyfire. It doesn't seem to suffer the wifi issues to the same extent as any of the other browsers.
The wifi issue seems very strange, and I think it is more my ageing Netgear router. It doesn't work well close up when I get a full strong signal, but is acceptable (not good) when I am in the next room or even outside. The only thing that really worked was switching back to b from g, but I didn't stay with that for more than a couple of days because of the speed difference.
I have also flashed to Rotohammer's latest ROM JMI (unfortunately with the same issue, and no GPS).
I will continute to try various things I find around this forum, but as you say, no one seems to have an answer.

rangercaptain said:
The problem is your browser is not compatible with your webserver. I had this problem back in blackberry days. Download dolphin or opera to see if a different browser fixes your issue.
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Thanks but I have tried Opera, Dolphin, Skyfire but am still unable to login to some sites such as the OPDA forum in China that I want to use.
henrylam said:
I suggest for you to search around for a APN setting that suits your network provider. Sometimes it may be caused by that.
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Thanks but my APN settings were provided automatically by my network provider and I have checked and double checked them and even tried editing the APN settings but without success.
njackson said:
I've had my tab for only a few weeks, and have had a very shaky wifi connection because of the same error you get.
With the wifi I can logon no problems, but I continue to get the error you mentioned. The stock browser is essentially useless with this, so I tried many others. Dolphin HD, Opera Mini & Mobile, Miren, and Firefox beta were mostly better, but still not really useable. The best I found (even though I think some of the others are better browsers) is Skyfire. It doesn't seem to suffer the wifi issues to the same extent as any of the other browsers.
The wifi issue seems very strange, and I think it is more my ageing Netgear router. It doesn't work well close up when I get a full strong signal, but is acceptable (not good) when I am in the next room or even outside. The only thing that really worked was switching back to b from g, but I didn't stay with that for more than a couple of days because of the speed difference.
I have also flashed to Rotohammer's latest ROM JMI (unfortunately with the same issue, and no GPS).
I will continute to try various things I find around this forum, but as you say, no one seems to have an answer.
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As mentioned in a reply above - I have already tried Opera, Dolphin and Skyfire but still get the same message when trying to login to my account with the OPDA Chinese forum specifically and SOME other websites or forums in general.

Do you know anything about tomcat? I googled your error, where I found out about the browser incompatibility, and it could be on the server side.

rangercaptain said:
Do you know anything about tomcat? I googled your error, where I found out about the browser incompatibility, and it could be on the server side.
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Well I have had a "slight" success in that I installed Mozilla Firefox and it allows me to sign into the "offending" websites/forums etc.
It is slow but at least it is doing the job!!
Any other suggestions would be most welcome.

You are not alone in this frustrating issue. I have a T-Mobile Tab and I constantly have data issue when on the celluar network. I constantly have to reset the data by turning off and on airplane mode or holding the power button to reset the data and as a last ditch effort, I just switch it to GSM only *Shudders* Wifi works flawlessy. Data on the other hand is shaky at best. I will try another browser other than stock today. Honestly I suspect the issue to be APN related because it's definitely not the SIM card related, as i've changed that several times. Any help would be greatly appreciated

Tomcat
rangercaptain said:
Do you know anything about tomcat? I googled your error, where I found out about the browser incompatibility, and it could be on the server side.
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Rangercaptain - I found this reference also, but could not figure out where this server might be. Logically there is only my tab, router, adsl modem, and my internet service provider (Telstra). I could only think that the 'tomcat' server could only be within Telstra, but also thought that if this was the issue there would be many more people complaining about this isue.
Can you throw any more light on which direction I should look to follow this through? I am also puzzeled about where I might change things to make my browser 'compatable'.
Thanks very much for your interest and help.

I am still looking. The server in the reference would be the sever that hosts the website you want. I will check back here later when I know more.

Thanks - I think you are right. My only problem is that the problem occurs on manywebsites, and even on Market and other internet accessing apps. While this could still be right, I don't see why many more people wouldn't be having the same issue.
It also puzzles me that changing the modem from g to b decreased the error significantly, as does moving further away from the router when it is in g mode.
Very confusing.