is there a way to display the download and upload bitrate of my phone? there are arrows next to the network type symbol to indicate if the data connection is uploading or downloading but I'm looking for a way to give any indication about the speed. anyone knows anything?
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If you want to bench your Nexus One, you can install the speedtest.net app into your phone (available on the market). This will surely gives you a good indication of your current location data speed.
But having the speed constantly updated/refreshed in the notification area... Would it be useful? SmartPhone trafic is bursty: a couple of Kb in/out at a time. Sometime bigger "short" D/L of apps and/or images... Unless you do long transfer, most of your readings would not give you the real picture of your data rate.
Also, 2G/3G data rates are "fixed". You can compare it to "old phone modems" there were specific rates: 14.4K, 28.8K, 33.6K. So, you can never end up with a 29.3K speed.
You have to refer to the HSDPA/HSUPA rate tables.
Network Speed is what you need. Shows current up/down speed in notification pane + shortish term historic graph on click. http://www.appbrain.com/app/network-speed/netspeed.pt I had uninstalled it because there was no way to exit (it slows the system down a bit) but I see that's been solved now.
awesome about what I was looking for. thx
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Not sure if I should post this in the App forum or the Q&A forum...anyway...
I am looking for an app that shows data sent and received in the task bar but with numbers associated with it. I had found an app earlier which put data activity in the task bar but it was still in bar form with no numbers associated with it.
Thanks.
there's an app that "does" what you want, plus more, its called zdbox or something. I can't remember. It is a very useful app though.
I've been using 3G Watchdog for a few weeks and it seems to be doing a good job. It only measures Data up/down, not wifi though, and it gives detailed amounts and can even be programmed with your monthly quota and will notify you if you are getting close to your data limit.
I suggest you try Droidstats.
Been using it for about a month now and it's working very well (especially for a free app).
Also very customizable, you can put your top5/top10, add the night/weekend free call time, set the amount of data (+ when to tell you only have a certain % left) and some more.
Try it, you won't be disapointed
I just grabbed the wireless tether app for root users via the market store and I love it.
My new netbook is too far away from my router on the other end of my place and so I just decided to try out an app for wireless tethering and voila.
Anyway, so I was wondering if Cricket will charge me extra for the bandwidth that I use to tether? I'm on the unlimited plan. Is there a cap that I need to watch out for?
The app displays the amount of data in kb and mb that is downloaded when browsing. Thanks!
They won't charge you for using more than 1GB/month, but they WILL cut your speed down to 7.5KBPS after you reach that 'limit'. Go to www.mycricket.com and look into their Fair Use Policy. It explains everything.
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I thought it was 5Gb a month
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It's 1gb. They allow 5gb with their mobile broadband plan before they throttle you back.
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I found this neat piece of info in regard to the average bandwidth usage for daily tasks,
Approximate Data Usage Examples
Basic information and examples showing the approximate data usage for several common Internet activities appear below.
Application Approximate Size
E-mail (1 text page without attachments).....................................................................................................3 KB
Based on this assumption, you would need to send and/or receive approximately 1,747,627 e-mails in a month to reach 5 GB
Word Document (5 text pages)..................................................................................................................70 KB
Based on this assumption, you would need to download approximately 74,897 Word Documents in a month to reach 5 GB
Web Page..............................................................................................................................................150 KB
Based on this assumption, you would need to look up approximately 34,952 web pages in a month (or over 1,000/day) to reach 5 GB
Digital Photo..........................................................................................................................................500 KB
Based on this assumption, you would need to download approximately 10,485 low resolution digital photos in a month to reach 5 GB
PowerPoint Presentation (20 pages text & light graphics)...............................................................................3 MB
Based on this assumption, you would need to download approximately 1,707 PowerPoint presentations in a month to reach 5 GB
Note: The above examples are just estimates, based on approximate size assumptions. Actual file sizes and user experiences will vary.
Cricket Fair Use Policy
Cricket sets usage levels on the amount of data a customer can upload and download within stated periods of time.
If you exceed your rate plan usage levels, Cricket will temporarily reduce the speed at which you can send and receive data over the Cricket network.
You will still be able to use the service but your speed will be slower.
Cricket may use other traffic management and prioritization tools to help ensure equitable access to the Cricket network for all customers.
http://www.mycricket.com/fairuse
I remember reading about a data tweak that would some how increase your download speeds but I've searched and can't find it. Does anybody know what it's called or how I can get info on it?
There's some 3g tweaks out there in the v6/v8 supercharger thread I'm pretty sure, but location has more to do with it on the hero. My Hero gets crap speeds but on my friend's Optimus we can tether and download movies in a few hours. My Hero can pretty much handle instant messaging and web browsing only.
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those speed tweaks never worked it was just a placebo affect the only real way to increase speeds and reception is to play around with radio and prl combinations witch sometimes takes weeks to get right.
To increase the Increase your internet speed:
By default microsoft reserves 20% of bandwidtth for windows update. You can increase overall bandwidtth by 20% by setting in to 0% for windows update.
Do the following steps.
1) Goto Start->Run
2) type gpedit.msc and press ENTER
3) You will get a window "Group Policy"
4) Goto Administrative Templets->Network->QoS Packet sheduler.
5) Select and double click on "Limit Reservable Bandwidtth" option in right panel.
6) Then click on Enable and change reservalble bandwidtth to "0%". THEN MAKE FUN WITH 20% MORE SPEED.
Note: Even it is by default disabled but still it reserve 20% bandwidtth. So you have to enable it and set to 0%.
You can Check the Internet speed at here Ip-details.com
Does the Hero Sense data go through sprint's proxy site?
i did a speed test on my hero and got 1.90mb !! fastest i ever gotten
malayalapenkutti said:
To increase the Increase your internet speed:
By default microsoft reserves 20% of bandwidtth for windows update. You can increase overall bandwidtth by 20% by setting in to 0% for windows update.
Do the following steps.
1) Goto Start->Run
2) type gpedit.msc and press ENTER
3) You will get a window "Group Policy"
4) Goto Administrative Templets->Network->QoS Packet sheduler.
5) Select and double click on "Limit Reservable Bandwidtth" option in right panel.
6) Then click on Enable and change reservalble bandwidtth to "0%". THEN MAKE FUN WITH 20% MORE SPEED.
Note: Even it is by default disabled but still it reserve 20% bandwidtth. So you have to enable it and set to 0%.
You can Check the Internet speed at here Ip-details.com
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Ummm... this is a smartphone forum, not a windows forum lol....
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rubyknight said:
Ummm... this is a smartphone forum, not a windows forum lol....
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You can use the internet speed Booster package,use latest version of Opera and use virus protection and install apps which increase internet speed in mobile Phone...
This is for the EVO3D but might work with the Hero? Not Sure!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1140870
Speed it up
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1346680
This worked on my Epic 4G.
I have just bought a new Galaxy Note and I think it is really really good, but there's just a few things that I'm not sure how to do and what certain things mean etc:
1. I have only ever had a H symbol with 2 arrows in the notification bar. I thought that I would have a 3G symbol but this has never appeared. Question is, what is the H symbol and is my 3G working? I have just turned off fast dormancy, as I have read that it may drain batter, and now I have an E where the H usually is. What is the E for?
2. I'd like to improve the battery life and I have read on here of a few ways to do that. One of the ways is to make sure that apps don't update too regularly. Where do I actually go to check how often the apps update?
3. I have downloaded a few apps and some have saved to the SD card and some have saved to the phone. Why is this? How do I choose where apps save to?
4. I used to have an iPhone 4 and I was forever double tapping the menu button and closing down apps. As far as I am aware with an adroid phone you don't need to do this? Is that right?
I'm sorry for length of this post and the amount of questions that I have asked. I am normally really good with phones but the galaxy note is more like a computer and I would rather just ask the questions than figure it all out myself over time.
Thanks in advance.
H is like 3.5G its a little faster than 3G bit still not 4G. E or edge is 2G.
You can check in the settings of most apps itself how frequently they auto update
As far as moving apps go you can go to setting then apps and choose where the app is, except for system apps.
To close apps and not have them run in the background you have to long press the home button and then swipe the app you want to close
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ottawayd said:
I have just bought a new Galaxy Note and I think it is really really good, but there's just a few things that I'm not sure how to do and what certain things mean etc:
1. I have only ever had a H symbol with 2 arrows in the notification bar. I thought that I would have a 3G symbol but this has never appeared. Question is, what is the H symbol and is my 3G working? I have just turned off fast dormancy, as I have read that it may drain batter, and now I have an E where the H usually is. What is the E for?
2. I'd like to improve the battery life and I have read on here of a few ways to do that. One of the ways is to make sure that apps don't update too regularly. Where do I actually go to check how often the apps update?
3. I have downloaded a few apps and some have saved to the SD card and some have saved to the phone. Why is this? How do I choose where apps save to?
4. I used to have an iPhone 4 and I was forever double tapping the menu button and closing down apps. As far as I am aware with an adroid phone you don't need to do this? Is that right?
I'm sorry for length of this post and the amount of questions that I have asked. I am normally really good with phones but the galaxy note is more like a computer and I would rather just ask the questions than figure it all out myself over time.
Thanks in advance.
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H is the fastest internet you'll get on your note, the downside of it is that it drains the battery pretty fast. As for me, I switch to it when I want to load YouTube videos, download lots of data and similar. You can download a "3G switch" widget from Google Play to quickly jump between H(3G) and EDGE(the E symbol, slower internet, but much better battery life)
By turning off the automatic sync, you save a lot of data and battery life, you can do that via Settings > Accounts and Sync. Personally, I find it better to manually refresh my email and similar when I need it, but it's your decision.
Since Note has a massive internal memory, you should keep all apps installed to the internal memory rather than the SD card, for the fastest experience, since none of the apps need to load from the slower SD card.
Android handles processes very well by itself so there is no need to manually "kill" apps. If you wish to end some unresponsive ones, you can get SystemPanel Task manager from the Google Play store, it's pretty good.
Feel free to PM me for any further questions
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ottawayd said:
2. I'd like to improve the battery life and I have read on here of a few ways to do that. One of the ways is to make sure that apps don't update too regularly. Where do I actually go to check how often the apps update?
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besides turning the global sync off, you can:
- check the betterbatterystats thread, it may seem confusing at first, but it's worth the effort
- disable gps location
- in all internet apps (e.g. facebook, rss readers, weather etc. ) turn the automatic updates off (or set to every 8/16/24hr)
- if you feel brave, check either autostarts or autorun manager in the market (both apps paid) - based on trial and error you can disable triggers which make apps to autostart, without damaging their functionality
- avoid taskkillers
- check lama (also on market, free), you can set it to do a lot of things, like turn wifi on when you're at home and switch to mobile when not, turn sync and internet off when screen is of etc. etc.
hi this is my first post.
just bought a used 8.9 att tab. right now i'm using wifi, but planning to get att sim prepaid data plan for domestic and my international trip. i know there are alot of apps running in the background like the accu weather apps. those constantly pull data, correct? my question is how do i stop them from pulling data? i just want to used my tablet and save as much as data as possible and i only want to use it when i need it like surfing the web, checking weather when i need it. do i kill those apps running in the background and how do i kill it? what other apps are pulling in data beside the accu weather map, the standard apps that came on my 8.9 honeycomb os.
or should i just disconnect my 3g connection when i'm not in used and just turn on wifi instead? and then turn on my 3g when need it? i'm planning to get the cheapest plan which is 250 MB for $15/month prepaid.
You will probably have to check settings of each and every app you have, to reduce the frequency of background updates, and perhaps to set them up to only download on WiFi connection. Not all apps provide such flexibility. I know I removed a few apps (from my phone) because they didn't allow to save data traffic.
I recommend you install an app that tracks and reports your mobile data PER APPLICATION.
I use RadioOpt Traffic Monitor for that, on my phone.
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fred_be9300 said:
You will probably have to check settings of each and every app you have, to reduce the frequency of background updates, and perhaps to set them up to only download on WiFi connection. Not all apps provide such flexibility. I know I removed a few apps (from my phone) because they didn't allow to save data traffic.
I recommend you install an app that tracks and reports your mobile data PER APPLICATION.
I use RadioOpt Traffic Monitor for that, on my phone.
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installed this apps today and ran the apps with my wifi. holy crap. just today briefing turning on my 8.9 for about 4 hours and light surfing on my dolphin browser, it has 189 MB!
here are some of the breakdowns:
total traffic: 189 MB
system traffic: 147 MB
dolphin browser: 20 MB
and other misc. running apps in that didn't took much data.
my question is majority of it is from system traffic. what is system traffic? how do i stop it running? if i plan to get the cheapest att data plan for my 8.9 which is 250 MB, it wouldn't even last a day!
any1 here subscribe to att with their tab and how do you cut on the data you use on your tab with your att data plan? thx in advance.