Help slow internet and bad signal.

I don't know if you saw it, but a guy on the androidcentral forums (in a thread you posted in actually) said you can temp root with z4root, and use msl reader from the market. I tested it and it works. Android central is being flakey today, so if you haven't read it by the time I get home I'll give you a step by step.

I've used MSL Reader on my rooted phone - it works.

Sorry to repeat this if already answered - what will the next steps be after getting the MSL to get into ##DATA# edit mode?

I will start from the top for others benefit:
Open dialer
Enter ##DATA#
Tap Edit Mode
Enter MSL
Tap Data Profile
Hit menu key, select Restore
Tap through the dialog until phone reboots

It will go through the hands free activation and all that, then should be good to go

Zardos said:

Pulling about 600 kb/s in my work building after doing all that. Temp root ftw! Can't wait to see how fast I can get at full service tonight.

Leave it the community to fix something better than the corp.

Also, I've noticed when I type fast it seems to have trouble keeping up, anyone else see this?

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Awesome, glad you were able to get that worked out!

I've noticed that it is not able to keep up when posting here from a full html view. The phone handles the page good, but it does not like that text box. If you post from mobile view (that little drop menu at the bottom left) it is much more smooth.

Edits--becuz I canz english gud, rly

We've got errands to run, including checking this baby out.

Later today or tomorrow, I'll cross-post some of the Evo tips and tricks - probably get that lag out, plus a few other goodies for ya.

Zardos said:

Would there be any reason for me to factory reset again after that?

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Na, you should be good to go!

I'm currently getting between 600-1000 kb/s according to the speedtest.net app. Of course that's with the phone showing only 1-2 bars of signal. It does seem like the shift doesn't get quite as good reception as my old Hero did, although my house has always been kind of a black hole for cellular reception. Calls today haven't seemed to suffer too much from the low signal strength but I did have a couple calls yesterday that were barely intelligible.

Just for the record though, I did go through the factory reset, PRL/profile updates as well as the data profile update discussed in this thread this afternoon and haven't seen any noticeable change. I talked to Sprint CS today and they're sending me a free Airave, so it will be a moot point soon anyway.

I absolutely love this phone though.

How did you convince sprint to send you an airwave? i've been arguing with them for over 6 months and still can't get them to send me one.

Whats the best program or app to check the internet speed on our phones?

EarlyMon said:

Hey, we chased a lot of hokey pokey chicken dances when the Evo first came out, including after the first update, all the while not paying attention to the quiet ones saying, I did a factory reset and don't have these problems.

I've come to believe that between HTC and Sprint, they get a little something maybe tangled in the cache/data areas, right out of the box.

So, with new, last thing you'd think is a factory reset - but it's helped others with the cousin phone.

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I figured I may as well go this to start fresh. After the reset using the settings menu method:
speeds with 3g - 139kbps down, 177 up, and 890ms ping
speeds with wifi - about 4200kbps down, 1500 up, and 77 ping
speeds with 4g enabled - 1795kbps up, 316 down and 117ms ping

So whats with that? 4g uses different towers??

Should I call sprint about the crappy 3g service at home?

Speedtest gives a pretty ok rule of thumb, and it's highly dependent on busy the server is.

Your 3G isn't sucky, different servers, time of day, can change results. I usually get 1000+/700 down/up but just tinkered to get half that.

4G is a different radio system. I don't get 4G but that looks kinda on the minimum side to me, from what I've followed with others.

Like all cell stuff, this is likely to change by location, even within your city.

I have tried a couple of internet sites for down/upload speed test and speedtest.com always came up with lower numbers.

Interesting thing is I turned off the GPS and overall download speed has increased.

Wow! I turned mine on and throughput tanked. Verified on Evo.

Doh! CDMA and GPS are on the same chip in this set. Likely causal.

Is there anyway to have the GPS disabled until an application requests it and then have it shut down after the application closes, besides doing it manually?

Not that I've heard of but the Power Control widget makes it easy.

Just by using Power Control to turn my GPS off, now in 3G Mode, my download speed increased from150kb to 1mb. Wow!!! What a difference. I was getting ready to call Sprint Tech Support, but now understand that using the same radio for GPS and 3G adversely affects performance when using them both at the same time.

BTW....I get over 10Mb using my home WiFi....

Sorry to rehash an older thread but I figured if I'm having an issue others may still be too. I'm not a complete newb to this stuff but I am a bit when it relates to rooting.

My wife just got an Evo Shift and I have an Evo. Her 3G speeds are painfully slow (as in less than 64K down). I've updated everything there is to update and the one last thing I want to do is the temp root trick with Z4root so I can enter the MSL and reset data. That appears to have worked for most people and I'd prefer not to jump through hoops with customer service.

Just to make sure I have all the steps down I actually went through the entire process on my Evo and it went fine. Downloaded Z4root, MSL reader and went through the steps described in this post. I wasn't having an issue with speed on my Evo so nothing has really changed.

Now, my questions. My biggest concern about doing this on my wife's phone is Unrooting it after I'm done. How can I confirm that I've unrooted my Evo??? Everyone has said that once you reboot the phone will no longer be rooted. Do you mean simply powering the phone off and restarting it will unroot it? I've done that on my phone as well as even use fast reboot. I thought once the phone was unrooted my super user icon would disappear but it is still resident in my apps. BUT, when I try to use MSL reader again it says I'm not rooted and I tried to use Quick Boot which requires root access and it also says I'm not rooted. How can I be sure? Do I need to remove the SU icon myself once unrooted?

Sorry for all of the questions but after scouring a few forums these are the only questions I have left. None of these have been specifically addressed anywhere.

Thanks in advance.

Ok, I found this somewhere else...

z4root needs superuser permissions for the re-root and un-root to show up. go into superuser.apk and make it forget z4root. When you relaunch z4root, it should ask you for permissions again and just check allow.

So what I did was hit temp root again in zvroot and after I did that it asked for SU permission. Once I granted permission it then gave the unroot option through z4root. I assume that simply using the unroot option through z4root will take care of everything (I'm wondering if just turning off/on the phone had unrooted the phone). For those of you that have successfully rooted and unrooted your phones is it accurate that the superuser icon remains on your phone? How do I get rid of it so that if I need to return the phone to sprint they would have no idea it was rooted?

Thanks