Throttlig?!! What Now

[thewolfe]

After 8 months of successful flashing its hitting me like crazy. How are you all responding it to it.

[JaiFar1996]

There's no easy way around it....customer's will always hold you 100% accountable for what's happening to their service. Many havent been hit yet but itll get to them when they renew their plan/refill and hit a certain gig usage.

Wondering if speeds get back at least for a few gigs again after one refills or hits due date again?

[thewolfe]

Ive had to due reflashes and umber changes to bypass

[Heimish]

Tried changing phone number and didn't help

[JaiFar1996]

At this point looks like you just need a whole new acct every time it throttles

[rich hathaway]

have you guys looked to see if they are throttling your devices from the device itself and not the account,who knows may be they use both.
there are several nv items that are responsible for that,450,69710 ect.At any point if your device ota's or updates it would be susceptible to it.and actually with devices updating over 3g and wifi now it can happen without you even knowing it did.
I am no mifi guy but nv's work the same in all quallcom based devices.may be worth a shot to look at them.

[Runawaysam]

Reckin why they wanna be mean to us ....... Some of you gurus hurry up and come up with us all a fix. Thanks in advance!!!!

[JaiFar1996]

lol,,,bc they can charge $15 per gigabyte. Instead of giving away 100gigs for $10/month

[elisa191]

Guys........

I can not tell you how to get around this because it would cost me a lot of money in Non-Compete penalties but what I can tell you is that if you go back and read Rich's comment very carefully you will be pointed in the right direction.

Also I CAN tell you this

I provided the answer in several of my posts almost two years ago and most of you guys laughed at me about it......

So if I were looking I would decipher Riches comment and my old posts

The answer is out there you just have to go get it!

elisa191

[alcatrazcc]

"Data hogs with an unlimited package will be identified as one of the top 5-percent once they go over a 2 GB limit. Verizon will resume the user's true 3G speed once the congestion on the nearby cell site subsides. Depending on the duration of the heavy traffic, the throttling could last minutes or for several hours. Throttling could also stop once a user's phone connects to another cell tower". -Verizon

[aaron1wii]

I had a flashed mifi that had been throttled and it was throttled for 2 straight weeks, I'm not for sure if it would have ever went back to the pre- throttled speed. So i'm not sure that verizon is using the network optimization as indicated above, or just permanently throttling these accounts. I don't think that they have to play by the rules in this matter.

[carcetz]

So this wouldn't happen with an extravert?

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I think they are permanently throttling the accounts, mine is been throttled for about 3 weeks now.

[carcetz]

The ------ are very slow themselves i called costumer seevice, they gave a few tips to make it run faster but it didnt work.

[taskforce81]

Anyone figure this out yet?

[carcetz]

Anyone figure this out yet?
It seems like verizon changed plans, so there is no more unlimited data on the prepaid, is this correct?

[carcetz]

My bad i was looking at the smartphone prepaid one.

[amberh]

@elisa191 - You sound like you know what you’re talking about. The only person on the entire internet that does.
I am not a flasher/seller. I am a customer who purchased a flashed mifi 2200 from ebay in April 2013. Well, I was given the CDMA workshop along with a ----- phone and instructions on how to re-flash my mifi when needed – at that point there were a lot of outages and I guess that is how my seller decided to fix it.
I have flashed my mifi many many times, and I even bought a 2nd ----- phone recently to see if that would fix the throttling problem. It did for about a week, then I was slow again. Both ----- phones are slow, I even let them expire to see if it would reset – no go.
I would be happy to purchase either the instructions from you on what I need to do (for my eyes only), or send you the damn thing if you could flash it to make it work (I’m not liking this option so much, as it may need to be reflashed frequently). Right now, it barely works an Iphone…and my girls are going crazy without the roku (Dora is in high demand).

[bakenast]

you could use a vzw android if u didnt want to hastle with reflashing all the time and just tether it

[carcetz]

[UOTE=bakenast;53626]you could use a vzw android if u didnt want to hastle with reflashing all the time and just tether it[/QUOTE]
Would that fix the throttling too? The problem here is the throttling.

[Runawaysam]

Thanks for the clue Rich !!! worked well for me. Read Rich's post and you should figure out what to do

[carcetz]

I've reading but i can't figure out, what did you do?

[Heimish]

have you guys looked to see if they are throttling your devices from the device itself and not the account,who knows may be they use both.
there are several nv items that are responsible for that,450,69710 ect.At any point if your device ota's or updates it would be susceptible to it.and actually with devices updating over 3g and wifi now it can happen without you even knowing it did.
I am no mifi guy but nv's work the same in all quallcom based devices.may be worth a shot to look at them.


there is no 69710 on the mifi's they go up to 65535 as for nv item 450 this is what it looks like on my throttled one
00450 (0x01C2) - OK
01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 | ................
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 | ................
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 | ................
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 | ................
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 | ................
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 | ................
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 | ................
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 | ................

[aaron1wii]

there is no 69710 on the mifi's they go up to 65535 as for nv item 450 this is what it looks like on my throttled one
00450 (0x01C2) - OK
01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 | ................
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 | ................
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 | ................
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 | ................
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 | ................
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 | ................
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 | ................
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 | ................


Yeah mine looks that way too.....

I even saved a version before my mifi got throttled where the first digit was 00 instead of 01. It worked one time and then after that it was a no go.

[rich hathaway]

Just to clarify,any device made in the last 2 years can/will have nv items written above 65535,so just because your tools cant read them or you dont know how to read them doesnt mean they are not there,remember they dont want you to read/write them.

[Only registered and activated users can see links]
this nv item should be set all "00" for disable,when set to "01" this nv item is set to enable.there are also a few nv's that set exact data speed or curb and when enabled it doesnt matter what nv item 450 is set to it supersedes that and item 450 only has to set to enable one time for your device to respect throttle curbing speed set by another nv item,this can be disabled by firmware easily in phones so i am sure it also can be in mifi's.

keep in mind people there is more than one way to skin a cat and i am not a mifi guy nor have i ever fooled with them for more than maybe reloading a messed up device,my 2 have always worked fine on the 10 dollar plan,but i do not abuse either,i have google fiber gigabyte connection and only use the mifi for its ip and posting craigslist ads so my use in a month is probably less than 300 mb ea.

[Only registered and activated users can see links]
all lte devices use nv items up over the 70000 mark,and new nv items to even control 3g data are now written in that area and supersede older items written under 65535

I have full list and descriptions of all nv items but as long as quallcom makes new chips the list will constantly change with new additions and exceptions.
some of the "mifi guys" here probly know some other tricks as well,but remember most all function is controlled by the nv

EDIT: THIS ALSO SHOULD BE SAID--YOU CAN PERMANENTLY DAMAGE YOUR DEVICE WRITING THE WRONG NV ITEMS SO EDIT ONLY IF YOU KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING.

[chunkydaddy]

Hi I have the mifi 2200 and when I went to read the nv 450 like other it changed from 00 to 01 from the phone and also the mifi. I edit it to 00 and wrote it back to the phone and the mifi. Somehow that did not seem to help with the throttling. Is there another nv that also need to be edit.

[chunkydaddy]

Just checking again to see if anyone found out anything new that I can try. I think this will help others also.

[aaron1wii]

Just checking again to see if anyone found out anything new that I can try. I think this will help others also.


A few posts back rich commented on this issue. I had the same thing happen as you. I think that you will have to change the nv item 69710, see rich's photo bucket link. But as to how to do that i have not found a free flashing tool that will read any nv item over 65535. Good luck!

[chunkydaddy]

Ok thanks for the tip. I will dig more into this.

[JaiFar1996]

Have you tried to make the correction then do an esn change?

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[carcetz]

No solution yet?

[freshice2009]

Is their away too throttle the Verizon mifi 4510L

[rich hathaway]

you want to throttle it?

[JaiFar1996]

I hate the fast speeds too..lol