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I'm from Brazil and having issues with Nexus S since I bought it.
Before, I was with KB1 radio and could not have GPS fixed and was losing signal several times a day.
So, I updated to KB3 and it fixed the GPS issue but the network signal issue remains or even got worse.
I'm losing the network signal more than 20 times a day and the only solution are reboot.
Could someone help me please?
winteum said:
I'm from Brazil and having issues with Nexus S since I bought it.
Before, I was with KB1 radio and could not have GPS fixed and was losing signal several times a day.
So, I updated to KB3 and it fixed the GPS issue but the network signal issue remains or even got worse.
I'm losing the network signal more than 20 times a day and the only solution are reboot.
Could someone help me please?
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it could possibly be the signal towers, most likely it is.
you can also try to flash back to a stock ROM + stock Radio and see if it fix itself up
Can I put the Galaxy S radio in Nexus S? Because we have Galaxy S here in Brazil.
winteum said:
Can I put the Galaxy S radio in Nexus S? Because we have Galaxy S here in Brazil.
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very simply... no.
try the JK8 radio? or try flashing a custom ROM to see if its a firmware related problem
also verify your KB3/KB1 packages with MD5 hash to verify its 100%
I'm having that problem also in my nexus S and on my wifes Galaxy S
BOTH are stock roms. Really weird. It enters like 1 or 2 times a day in "Emergency call only mode". Weird thing is: signal bars are FULL but emergecy only text on my lockscreen.
My carrier: VIVO, são paulo, Brazil.
gfgodoy said:
I'm having that problem also in my nexus S and on my wifes Galaxy S
BOTH are stock roms. Really weird. It enters like 1 or 2 times a day in "Emergency call only mode". Weird thing is: signal bars are FULL but emergecy only text on my lockscreen.
My carrier: VIVO, são paulo, Brazil.
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The same here and the same carrier. But I'm using custom ROM and Kernel.
Updated back to KB1.
Results:
Network ok.
Losing 3g all the time.
No GPS fix.
Try to use a custom rom, like cyanogen, it's works grate for me with my nexus in Brazil.
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flaviowbr said:
Try to use a custom rom, like cyanogen, it's works grate for me with my nexus in Brazil.
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I'm using CM 7 stable.
It's a radio issue for sure.
Nexus S is coming to Brazil next month. Let's see which radio it will use here.
Its really cool seeing us brazilians talking here... You know, I dont have these problems at all but sometimes the 3g bars greys and than reconnect again. This just irritates me when on youtube, when streaming is interrupted.
Abracos,
Thanks
Radio:kb3 rom:cm7 stable phone:i9023
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liquelt said:
Its really cool seeing us brazilians talking here... You know, I dont have these problems at all but sometimes the 3g bars greys and than reconnect again. This just irritates me when on youtube, when streaming is interrupted.
Abracos,
Thanks
Radio:kb3 rom:cm7 stable phone:i9023
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Hi,
You are at Oi, and we are at VIVO. MAybe it's a issue with VIVO carrier.
Here in Rio, using TIM.
Sometimes I get signal lost, but it comes back without needing a reboot.
At work, 3G signal is very unstable. Leaving my Nexus at the same place/position, I get two bars of 3G signal, then suddenly full EDGE signal, then it comes back to 3G.
At home, I get 3G all the time.
There's another thing I've noticed: sometimes when I receive or make a call, after I hang up I lose connection (3G or EDGE). It takes about 10 to 15 seconds to recover it.
I have a Nexus S i9020, 2.3.3 stock rom and radio.
We have to know if that happens in the US. If yes it is our carriers, if not it is our basebands.
Im going to leave oi because the 3g speeds are horrible the max i got was 1030kbps. At Vivo speeds can be 2 times (Or more) better!!!
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Bad news for me: I've tried today all radio baseband avaible in XDA and all of them I got signal lost during the day. The worst KB3, K8, K1. In this order.
I don't know what more can I try.
If It won't be fixed soon, I'm sure my next phone will be a iphone 5. I love Android but can't deal with their bugs.
This is issue of the VIVO in some estates like Sao Paulo in a lot of phone models. They just knows about it, and they are correcting this issue.
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flaviowbr said:
This is issue of the VIVO in some estates like Sao Paulo in a lot of phone models. They just knows about it, and they are correcting this issue.
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But why only by rebooting the phone whe can get again the signal. Signal drop is a carrier/network issue but cannot reconnet to network it's a phone issue.
winteum said:
But why only by rebooting the phone whe can get again the signal. Signal drop is a carrier/network issue but cannot reconnet to network it's a phone issue.
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Remembering my ancient knowledge about cellular networks, a cellphone sends a registering signal to the radio-base station from time to time. If the RBS doesn't acknowledge this, this cellphone will lose signal. When you turn off the phone and turn it on, you are forcing a registering. Maybe then the RBS registers the phone, and then you get signal.
What I'm trying to say is that maybe it's not a cellphone issue, maybe it's an operator issue.
Have you tried using another phone with your SIM? Do that and check what happens.
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Remembering my ancient knowledge about cellular networks, a cellphone sends a registering signal to the radio-base station from time to time. If the RBS doesn't acknowledge this, this cellphone will lose signal. When you turn off the phone and turn it on, you are forcing a registering. Maybe then the RBS registers the phone, and then you get signal.
What I'm trying to say is that maybe it's not a cellphone issue, maybe it's an operator issue.
Have you tried using another phone with your SIM? Do that and check what happens.
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Yes. Before the Nexus S I had a Motorola Milestone and It never happend.
When it lose the singal, the Nexus S can identify the RBS but cannot register. Even If I restart the radio with an app or swtiching to airplane mode and switching again to normal mode, It can't register. What the diference of restart the radio or reboot the phone? Is it not the same "force"?
I have been with TMo for about 8 years and have never really had any problems. Just recently (last month or so) I have had all sorts of issues with my reception. At home it would appear that the phone is constantly switching cell towers, one of which is GSM only the other provides HSDPA. This constant switching often causes their to be periods of no signal.
Secondly, I have recently started receiving text messages twice and three times and often hours/ days after they were sent.
Just wondered if anyone from the UK have been experiencing the same issues and any ideas to help solve this issue as its really bugging me.
I was with tmobile in the uk until last week. I've never had trouble with texts or calls but For months I've been getting terrible Internet speeds during the day roughly 9am till 10pm (0.001 the norm) so frustrating.
I tried a giff gaff sim and it's superb usually around 3, 4 and 5 mb speed anytime of day.
Plain and simple EE is your problem they have buggered the data, my mate's orange data speeds were fine u till they came around people should be ringing and complaing
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E_Goldstein said:
Plain and simple EE is your problem they have buggered the data, my mate's orange data speeds were fine u till they came around people should be ringing and complaing
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Possibly due to sharing the networks between orange and t mobile? I'm on t mobile and if anything I've seen an improvement.
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Anyone else on Three having serious signal issues? - Wherever I go, no matter what City it is seriously poor goes to -95dBm tops at any given time. Been like this for a while now, even on my HTC One
However when I have tried my o2 sim card, my signal is full strength everywhere.. I wondered if maybe this could be solved by flashing Three's modem (H3G) to my phone. And Does anyone happen to have it? saves me downloading the firmware and extracting it.
radicalisto said:
Anyone else on Three having serious signal issues? - Wherever I go, no matter what City it is seriously poor goes to -95dBm tops at any given time. Been like this for a while now, even on my HTC One
However when I have tried my o2 sim card, my signal is full strength everywhere.. I wondered if maybe this could be solved by flashing Three's modem (H3G) to my phone. And Does anyone happen to have it? saves me downloading the firmware and extracting it.
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Unfortunately I don't have the modem for you, however my signal hasn't been affected at all recently ! If anything its been quicker, Last night was on 10mbs using 3g/hspa - Give them a call, they are no doubt working on upgrading your services and didnt inform you via text
Ry2mkk said:
Unfortunately I don't have the modem for you, however my signal hasn't been affected at all recently ! If anything its been quicker, Last night was on 10mbs using 3g/hspa - Give them a call, they are no doubt working on upgrading your services and didnt inform you via text
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Well 4G is supposed to come here (York) next month, but my signal has been super poor for about 3-4 months now, was in London the other week and Leeds a few days ago and it was the same, internet is pretty intermittent also. Guess I'll have to ring them and shout at them again.
I drive around Bristol, South Wales, Swindon and down as far as Bournemouth streaming music via Google. Im using Three and have h+ 3/4 bars 99% of the time. No issues for me with signal.
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skibadee said:
I drive around Bristol, South Wales, Swindon and down as far as Bournemouth streaming music via Google. Im using Three and have h+ 3/4 bars 99% of the time. No issues for me with signal.
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Hmm, I'm thinking it is possible my SIM is a tad dodgy maybe? - I'll give them a ring tomorrow and see what's what, cheers for the replies fellas.
radicalisto said:
Hmm, I'm thinking it is possible my SIM is a tad dodgy maybe? - I'll give them a ring tomorrow and see what's what, cheers for the replies fellas.
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Yeah worth a call, Like i said my signal and speed has been brill lately ! tip - remove your sim and turn the device off and on before you call otherwise they will just fob you off with that and get you to call back after or from another line !
2mb/s download speed - Some people would say thats 20mb connection
Not sure if its a good thing that my mobile phone has a better connection than my fixed landline
Sounds like sim could be dodgy! I'm in bournemouth and i'm getting Good speeds (19MB) and i travelled to wales and back and got pretty good speeds, average about 16MB but i have noticed that the Note 3 definitely doesn't get as good signal as the 1020 i have... For example, my note 3 will have no or one bar but my 1020 will have 2 or 3. And sometimes the Note 3 will display 3 or 4 bars but as soon as i go to call it says "not registered on network". Thats only out in the middle of nowhere (Wool, Wareham).
Anyone had issues not receiving calls? I have had several calls that did not come through but did go to my voicemail. I had my wife call me but my phone never rang. We were standing right next to each other. I have a stock Verizon model with the kit Kat update.
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No one else has had this problem besides me? Wonder what is going on with my phone?
I've had this with mine, a mate said he'd been trying to call me a couple of days ago and just kept getting to answerphone.
The phone was next to me in a good signal area. I think I was running CloudyPro rom at the time if that has any bearing on it.
I have a DE phone with the latest update. Service in my area this week has been horrible.( Wichita Kansas ) I've mostly been in 3g with service coming and going all week. My coworkers have this problem as well. Is anyone else experiencing poor service ?
cam1pbell said:
I have a DE phone with the latest update. Service in my area this week has been horrible.( Wichita Kansas ) I've mostly been in 3g with service coming and going all week. My coworkers have this problem as well. Is anyone else experiencing poor service ?
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The tower in my area is notoriously crappy. many times even text messages will delay until we travel to another cell. My ex as an example received a Text message two days after I had sent it. no rhyme or reason, just crap service across all devices.
As far as 3g goes, if others have 4g my only suggestion is to reboot the phone. worked for my s3 running cyanogenmod 12.
Call them and ask them to investigate the tower. Have your coworkers call as well. You would need to know your signal strength for any real troubleshooting. Its possible that another vendor put up a tower or increased bands (channels) on existing tower. Also, does your employer have an extender/repeater. Maybe it is having issues?
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sixtythreechevy said:
Call them and ask them to investigate the tower. Have your coworkers call as well. You would need to know your signal strength for any real troubleshooting. Its possible that another vendor put up a tower or increased bands (channels) on existing tower. Also, does your employer have an extender/repeater. Maybe it is having issues?
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I'm going to give it a couple more days just in case they're working in the area and no my company does not have an extender Network out here I wish they did. Thanks
The BPA1 update really screwed with my reception. Prior to the update, I would be 2-3 bars 4G service with no drops inside my fire hall. After the update, I bounce between 1x & 3G with only 1 bar each depending on where I am in the building and it chews through battery the whole time. I updated one night at the hall and went from 2 bars 4G and streaming video with no drop outs to 1x and barely able to load Google.com all while sitting in one spot.
The phone also lags considerably while switching between networks and/or wifi.
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The BPA1 update really screwed with my reception. Prior to the update, I would be 2-3 bars 4G service with no drops inside my fire hall. After the update, I bounce between 1x & 3G with only 1 bar each depending on where I am in the building and it chews through battery the whole time. I updated one night at the hall and went from 2 bars 4G and streaming video with no drop outs to 1x and barely able to load Google.com all while sitting in one spot.
The phone also lags considerably while switching between networks and/or wifi.
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I agree the BPA1 update made my reception really bad too. I've gotten so many dropped calls at my house since then. I think I'm dropping Verizon as soon as my contracts up....
You can try 4G switcher app and toggle off LTE/CDMA auto PRL and then back to it to refresh your data?
Flashed back to BOG5 . Signal strength seems fine now. Maybe Verizon puts out ****ty updates on purpose just so people get tired of the poor performance and go buy a new phone . I hope not, makes me wonder
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Now that I have unlocked the bootloader, I flashed back to the BOK3 modem and have much better signal strength and faster downloads as a result. Call audio is suffering a bit though with a nasty echo at times...
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