Data speed on the vibrant :)

stepinmyworld · Jul 29, 2010

Hey, im not sure if any of you noticed but i had a nexus one which was a great phone! but it seems the vibrant is much fast when loading pages and pulling in data on edge and 3g. It's hard to explain what i mean but it's just a little more powerful. anyone else notice this? when you download apps, especially on 3g.. it's like #pow! and installed... very zippy!

just wanted some opinions. I can't wait until a real rom is generated for this phone and they create a 3200 mah battery for this. IM BUYING IT lol

Also yall should try Skyfire browser from the market and set your browser to open as Desktop rather than android or iPhone. Even on edge, the pages open so fast!

check it out!

darkknight49 · Jul 29, 2010

yea, the data seems quite zippy on the phone, even if the speed readings are a bit inconsistent. I did hit 5 Mbps in pasadena yesterday tho.

stepinmyworld · Jul 29, 2010

darkknight49 said:
yea, the data seems quite zippy on the phone, even if the speed readings are a bit inconsistent. I did hit 5 Mbps in pasadena yesterday tho.

yeah exactly

temperbad · Jul 29, 2010

I too came from a n1 and yes this beats it in speeds. Even on edge with no bars is faster than my n1 with 2 bars... I just wish the signal bars wasn't wacky. Its throwing my thinking off...lol

XfooYen · Jul 29, 2010

The phone takes advantage of HSPA. That's probably what you're seeing.

Sent from my Vibrant using XDA app facing north...no, wait. southwest.

temperbad · Jul 29, 2010

XfooYen said:
The phone takes advantage of HSPA. That's probably what you're seeing.

Sent from my Vibrant using XDA app facing north...no, wait. southwest.

So did his n1.....

SE7EN- · Jul 29, 2010

Coming from the Slide I couldn't even use the browser on Edge but on this Vibrant its really quick on Edge and I don't even need to switch it to 3G. Definitely a difference.

temperbad · Jul 29, 2010

XfooYen said:
The phone takes advantage of HSPA. That's probably what you're seeing.

Sent from my Vibrant using XDA app facing north...no, wait. southwest.

SE7EN- said:
Coming from the Slide I couldn't even use the browser on Edge but on this Vibrant its really quick on Edge and I don't even need to switch it to 3G. Definitely a difference.

Same here, in edge my n1 most the time didn't do anything... this is fast on edge....

I_Droid · Jul 29, 2010

stepinmyworld said:
yeah exactly

I just record my best download on speedtest.net. 6.1Mbs in Seattle area.

Sent from my SGH-T959 using XDA App

temperbad · Jul 29, 2010

I_Droid said:
I just record my best download on speedtest.net. 6.1Mbs in Seattle area.

Sent from my SGH-T959 using XDA App

Nice I got 5.0 this morning in Portland Oregon...

stepinmyworld · Jul 29, 2010

XfooYen said:
The phone takes advantage of HSPA. That's probably what you're seeing.

Sent from my Vibrant using XDA app facing north...no, wait. southwest.

well the nexus was said to support HSPA as well but it wasn't this fast.

stepinmyworld · Jul 29, 2010

temperbad said:
I too came from a n1 and yes this beats it in speeds. Even on edge with no bars is faster than my n1 with 2 bars... I just wish the signal bars wasn't wacky. Its throwing my thinking off...lol

i completely agree. the bars issue is annoying but i try not to worry about it too much because it never loses connection.

stepinmyworld · Jul 29, 2010

temperbad said:
Nice I got 5.0 this morning in Portland Oregon...

i can't seem to get past 3.2 mb download speeds in Philadelphia. it normally ranges from 2.5 mb though. that's pretty good.. it's consistent compared to some unfortunate people in bad areas

temperbad · Jul 29, 2010

stepinmyworld said:
i can't seem to get past 3.2 mb download speeds in Philadelphia. it normally ranges from 2.5 mb though. that's pretty good.. it's consistent compared to some unfortunate people in bad areas

Anything over 2.0 for me is good. ...

Arr MiHardies · Jul 29, 2010

I'm lucky if I get .5 Mbps here in vegas.. And we supposedly have that high speed network here. I went to california not long ago and edge there completely blew away the 3g in vegas. That is very sad.

Sent from my SGH-T959 using XDA App

larryccf · Jul 29, 2010

using speedtest.net i got 5.6 download speed here in richmond va

then the next day, saw 1.9 - someone on another forum said when he had spotty svc at home, he complained and Tmo sent a tech out to his tower, and a week later his was smoking with 4 bars constant

no idea how valid that report was but i'm thinking to try it

iunlock · Jul 29, 2010

stepinmyworld said:
Hey, im not sure if any of you noticed but i had a nexus one which was a great phone! but it seems the vibrant is much fast when loading pages and pulling in data on edge and 3g. It's hard to explain what i mean but it's just a little more powerful. anyone else notice this? when you download apps, especially on 3g.. it's like #pow! and installed... very zippy!

just wanted some opinions. I can't wait until a real rom is generated for this phone and they create a 3200 mah battery for this. IM BUYING IT lol

Also yall should try Skyfire browser from the market and set your browser to open as Desktop rather than android or iPhone. Even on edge, the pages open so fast!

check it out!

The Vibrant definitely processes things fast all around. I'm hitting 5-6Mbps down.

As for your battery you should just pick up some extra 1500mAh to get you by.

larryccf · Jul 29, 2010

Arr MiHardies said:
I'm lucky if I get .5 Mbps here in vegas.. And we supposedly have that high speed network here. I went to california not long ago and edge there completely blew away the 3g in vegas. That is very sad.

Sent from my SGH-T959 using XDA App

funny you mention that - had a similiar issue when i was out in vegas - called tmo cause i couldn't believe vegas would have weak coverage - csr said to try turning phone off, wait a couple minutes and turning back on - and it worked

in case it helps, she said something about the phone "reregistering with the network"

Data speed on the vibrant :)

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