weak wifi signal - Nexus S General

I've noticed that the phone is getting half the wifi signal that my iPhone 4 gets, has anyone else noticed this issue as well? I did a battery pull but that has not corrected the problem.

Same here it seems like I'm literally one wall away from my router but still getting one bar of wifi
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Yeah. I am getting only two bars even though I am standing right next to my router.

Run a speed test, it could just be a signal display issue.

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Terrible reception..4g or otherwise

I just got this phone today, and it will suffice to say, I am terribly disappointed. I stay in an "indoor" Wimax area, yet every time I try to connect to 4g, it has a bunch of popups saying "4g has been disconnected" or something to that extent, and when it does connect, it only stays connected for a few minutes. Oh and dont try to pick it up while its connected, because the antenna attenuation is so bad that it automatically drops the connection..then I decided ok let me just use 3g, but oh no..if i hold the phone the way its supposed to be held, the signal drops to about 1-3 bars out of six, and the speeds leave much to be desired. Also, it seems that 4g's speeds arent even up to par to tmobiles hsdpa for the most part.
I wanted alot out of this phone coming from the vibrant..namely the ffc, keyboard, notification light, and led flash, but this signal thing is ridiculous.
I also remember that when I held the vibrant, it lost most of its signal, but at least it held the connection every time..shoddy arse sammy antenna engineering..
Another major problem I have I that since the phone takes so long to charge, if you are using it while its on the charger, it won't charge, and worse, it will still deplete and cut off on you, as mine did earlier from 15%.
Really sad to hae all these problems in the first 12hrs of having the phone
/endrant

[Q] Wifi signal

I was high heavy problems with wifi signal...
Even after making a "windsurfer" to redirect my signal it still was unpleasant.
So I took a battery size foil paper and put it above the battery.
Indeed my signal got better. It is not stable (I don't get 3bars all the time, i get mostly 2 floating around -80-70 dbm and sometimes 3 bars) but its not getting dc all the * time.
If anyone could try this to see if it works...
Also, is there any harm doing this?
When the battery heat up, any damage?
Thanks!

Wifi signal has dropped significantly.

Hello,
recently the signal of my Nexus 7 has dropped dramatically; before I could walk to other rooms and I could have a decent wifi signal, however now if I leave too nearby room the signal decreases to only one bar or it could even be 0.
I am very worried because I don't know this could be a physical damage because the behavior of the wifi signal has change it significantly.
I am running 4.2.2 32gb version, rooted.
Thanks!
Is it only at home that this happens, or with any wifi? Mine occasionally does the same, and a router reboot usually gets it back to normal. Sometimes, just disconnecting and reconnecting fixes it. Annoying, but a quick and easy fix, if it works for you.
Sent from my SGH-I727 using xda premium
If it's not the router than try openning the back cover and attaching it again. It contains the WiFi antenna.

[Q] No LTE + Battery drain after tethering

I got a weird one for you guys. I had LTE on my nexus 4, but after tethering for awhile, my LED started flashing red and the phone got hot. So I turned off tethering, but my LTE became intermittent, and over the course of the next day, I lost LTE connectivity altogether, even if I set it to LTE only, I wouldn't get any signal. This is what I've tried, changing different hybrid radios, changing ROMs, factory restore to original ROM. The other symptom, and the one I care more about, is that my battery now drains pretty quickly, whereas it would last 3 hours of screen time on before this incident, now it lasts less then an hour. And it seems to drain while the phone screen is off. Anyone have any ideas what it could be? Did I burn out my LTE modem?
I think you need a new battery.
Planterz said:
I think you need a new battery.
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I have a feeling it has something to do with the modem. Day 2 with the damaged phone reveals that my signal will go in and out, sometimes it will be on 3g, sometimes on edge (even in 3g areas). If that's the case, a new battery won't necessarily help.
Now 3g is gone completely. I can only use 2g. Anyone else run into this problem?
I had this problem a few years back. It was the wireless provider who was adjusting my internet speeds. After one simple call they stropped doing this and my phone was always connecting at 3G (I don't have the LTE hack installed)

Wife's 6p loses connection when in weak cell, doesn't reconnect without a reboot

Hey Guys,
My wife's 6p loses connection when signal gets weak, but then never connects to a tower when back in range. The only solution is a reboot or switching airplane mode on / off.
Anyone else seeing this?
My Nexus 6 stays connected and switches towers very well, but the 6p gets disconnected and never reconnects.
Jim
Turning off Wi-Fi Assistant helped me a bunch.
http://www.androidpolice.com/2016/09/09/wifi-assistant-non-project-fi-nexus-devices-rolling/
What carrier are you on? I have a 6P and my school is on a mountain so I don't have service near the back of my school but it always reconnects as soon as I go to the buildings closer to the main street. This happens several times a day, so if my phone had that problem I would have seen it by now.
Another possibility is that you have a faulty device. If it's still in warranty (and even if it isn't), you may be in better shape getting a replacement from Google.

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