My connection keeps dropping randomly on the NS. It will be green on 3G then outta no where be grey. Im talking about my house in normal spots that always get 3G on my N1.
Anyone else noticing this?
I also activate my Wi-Fi when the 3G sinal is gray and then the Wi-Fi goes straight to gray and then it takes couple minutes for it to settle back to green on both 3G and Wifi...
Bah whats going on -_-
Grey isnt something bad per say... all it means is that your not connected to googles servers. as long as you still have a connection you are fine.
graemegb said:
Grey isnt something bad per say... all it means is that your not connected to googles servers. as long as you still have a connection you are fine.
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Not being connected to googles servers kinda defies the whole point (GTalk, Email, etc)....
IT drops very randomly for me sometimes when I just unlock the phone it drops..any one else?
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hey everyone
so my G2, which I absolutely love, has been having a problem lately. in the first week it happened maybe once and i didn't think much of it, but since Friday it's happened like 8 times now. I'll be sitting there with my G2 and all the sudden I have no service whatsoever. Just an x on the signal strength indicator. 1 or 2 times it has come back after a minute or two, but the other times I had to turn the phone off and back on. the weird part is I'm not moving at all, totally sitting still, but when it comes back on I have FULL bars with HSPA+. so it's not like I walked into an area that didn't get good reception.
any idea what's going on? i looked around but didn't see other people having this issue. any ideas?
thanks
alright well at least i'm not alone. i remember that rumored OTA update was supposed to have some radio bugfixes. maybe when the real OTA update comes it will have something to fix this. i hope so.
I have been trying to diagnose this issue on my phone too.
By any chance, do either of you have your BT on at the time?
Happens to mine as described and I have never turned on bluetooth. However this would also happen to my G1 so I think its a network thing personally.
Yeah, it definitely is. I have 2 areas that it happens in, both are while I am in my car and I have BT on in my car. When I ran it without BT, did not happen.
I have found that when I am in those area's, turning off 3G stops it entirely, even with BT on, so when in my car, I set edge and still use my BT and problem is gone.
I hope this is temporary and an OTA can fix the handoff from 3G to Edge and back better so that I can stop this, but this works well enough.
Mine has done that also, maybe once a week for the past 3 weeks.
Judging by the other problems you can have Id say this one isnt that bad. Especially if it only happens once a week haha. This is the only problem I have with my phone.
no bluetooth...
no no bluetooth on, i never do actually... but also my G1 never did this, which makes me think it's NOT a network thing, but I don't know.
also I'm sure this is just coincidence but it almost always happens when my girlfriend is nearby with her T-Mobile Blackberry Curve. i know it wouldn't make any sense, but she's sitting there on the same network with full service and all the sudden my G2 loses service completely, right next to her... although it's not always while she's there, but like the majority of the times she's been there.
I just started another post to check on something, I have widgets that show me when I am connected to 3G and when I am connected to H. I have noticed that the phone is activity managing that connection. In other word, it is in 3G until data is transfered then it goes to H. I wonder if when we are in areas of "questionable" HSDPA signal if this hand off is causing the problems.
I have seen a lot of op's say that there problems come right after some data activity?
Just a guess a this point
i saw someone mention in another post that it happens after/during a text message alot of times. i haven't noticed that myself, but that's something to think about too.
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I just started another post to check on something, I have widgets that show me when I am connected to 3G and when I am connected to H. I have noticed that the phone is activity managing that connection. In other word, it is in 3G until data is transfered then it goes to H. I wonder if when we are in areas of "questionable" HSDPA signal if this hand off is causing the problems.
I have seen a lot of op's say that there problems come right after some data activity?
Just a guess a this point
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What I've heard is that the phone will stay in 3G mode until you begin using data in order to save battery life. Makes sense to me.
So i was driving today and noticed my map was not updating. I looked at the connection and saw 3G but it was grey. Full bars and even went from 4 to 5 a couple of times....
I turned on airplane mode and turned it off and then i got the same thing but green and all was well.... What causes this? Does the grey bars mean signal but cant connect?
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So i was driving today and noticed my map was not updating. I looked at the connection and saw 3G but it was grey. Full bars and even went from 4 to 5 a couple of times....
I turned on airplane mode and turned it off and then i got the same thing but green and all was well.... What causes this? Does the grey bars mean signal but cant connect?
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Means that its not connected to the data network. Green does. Same with wifi.
Also something else I noticed ... when on a call I can browse and talk at the same time when on 3G, but not with edge.
Sent from my Nexus S
I was able to do that on my N1, havent been on the phone enough to try.. I still need to set up my BTHS with my NS...
Thats my next challenge, resetting the Jawbone Icon... ugh... I know its plug in holding power button thing, but I can never get it to work.. .
I remember seeing a video which said the 3g is green only when the phone picks up google voice. Power phone on the 3g bar is white once it detects g/v its green.
The talk and web browse will stop once you loose 3g connection
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Also something else I noticed ... when on a call I can browse and talk at the same time when on 3G, but not with edge.
Sent from my Nexus S
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This is correct. The EDGE network cannot handle data and phone at the same time. Neither can Verizon or Sprint, until they go to LTE.
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I have a question, Some times my Signal bars and 3G indicator are green and all works well. Other times they are Gray and things start happening, for example it keeps telling me it cannot authorize Google Talk. I can still connect to the internet and everything but just not sure why the Google Talk thing stops working.
This also happens when I am on WiFi in my house. Some times it will be green and other times it will be gray.
Any advice would be helpful
Thanks
~R~
schartzr said:
I have a question, Some times my Signal bars and 3G indicator are green and all works well. Other times they are Gray and things start happening, for example it keeps telling me it cannot authorize Google Talk. I can still connect to the internet and everything but just not sure why the Google Talk thing stops working.
This also happens when I am on WiFi in my house. Some times it will be green and other times it will be gray.
Any advice would be helpful
Thanks
~R~
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i believe that they are green when they are connected to google services i was reading about it on the forum the other night.
i am sure thats the reason, if not then someone please correct me as i pick mine up tomorrow
I'm having this problem too. Mostly when switching from 3g to 2g. I believe what is happening is the data is dropping out. When data/wifi are green you are connected and all is well. The grey means it is not working. I cant figure out why I have the problem switching between 2g AND 3g. That is bugging the crap outta me. My Vibrant does it with no problems, the Nexus s not so much. Dont know if this is related only to gingerbread or the phone. Usually a reboot takes care of this, and a reboot doesnt take long on the Nexus S. But like the girlfriend says, "all that money for this phone and it doesnt work right?"
Yea mine were all grey until I added my google account info and synced up. Now they seem to be perm green.
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I dont know if I agree with that. On my device when its grey it doesnt even connect to a web page or anything that uses data. This is just my observation.
I dont know if I agree with that. On my device when its grey it doesnt even connect to a web page or anything that uses data. This is just my observation.[/QUOTE]
there are a couple more threads on here about this google "nexus s grey bars" and will give you links to them
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I dont know if I agree with that. On my device when its grey it doesnt even connect to a web page or anything that uses data. This is just my observation.
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there are a couple more threads on here about this google "nexus s grey bars" and will give you links to them[/QUOTE]
Thanks stevo.
I was under the impression they were green when a connection was active, gray when idle. Don't have an S yet though, so can't confirm, but I'm pretty sure I read that somewhere (probably on here).
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I can still connect when grey...
I have the sleep policy set to never yet my WiFi at work keeps reconnecting every time i power it back on. My Evo4G has the same settings and doesn't drop the signal.
Ideas?
I'm having the exact same problem!
When I let my tablet sleep, after turning the screen on, the status bar says I'm connected to WiFi, but the bars are grey, not blue. Browsing the web works and YouTube as well, but apps like Talk keep saying I'm offline. After waiting a minute, it signs me in.
I have it set to never disconnecting WiFi, I'm not sure why it's doing this.
Same problem here. I returned my first Galaxy Tab 10.1 because of this. Sadly my replacement does the same thing.
I'm wondering how common this is or if returning it again would just be a waste of time.
It's particularly annoying because I like to stream after a while when the display is off, the streaming stops (wifi apparently dropping).
Seems like it is always one dang problem after another with each Honeycomb tablet I've had. *sigh*
Am I to assume by lack of response that almost nobody else has this issue? Just curious because it seems odd I'd have this problem with two tablets. And trying to decide if I should return and try a third time. Hate to keep returning them though if it's just a normal glitch with this tablet.
Same problem here, but only on my EAP network at work. On my home network (WPA2 personal), it works great.
cryptyk said:
Same problem here, but only on my EAP network at work. On my home network (WPA2 personal), it works great.
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I have this issue too, I seem to be connected but bars are grey. I tap the wifi, which takes me to settings and once I tap on my my access point which already shows connected, it lights back up and the bars change back to blue. Mainly an annoyance for now.
I had this same problem, the only way I found that is consistent is using Bluetooth.
Anyone know of a good way to reproduce the problem on demand? It happens often. So I was going to return the tablet to Fry's Electronics. But now they've gotten super anal and won't even let me exchange unless I can duplicate the issue in store.
But it seems to happen at random times when the screen has been asleep for a while.
And I probably will do my best to avoid shopping at Fry's in the future as well.
Happens to me too. It definatly is annoying. Hopefully they can send out a fix when they release the touchwiz ui.
Sent from my white Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1
It's not like I get disconnected from the net, although I see the grey bars, I can still surf the web and junk, but some apps log me out like I mentioned before. It used to happen all the time, now i only happens at times.
To see what I'm talking about, let it sleep for like an hour or two, and then launch Google Talk. It says you're offline, wait a bit and it logs you in again
Okay, that must be what is happening to me. I notice the grey bars all the time and a bit of lag once I pick up the tab and try to connect to some network resource. What I've discovered is that if you connect to a remember wifi spot (home) then let the device sleep and then move to another remember wifi spot (work) it just disconnects and waits for you to unlock the device before it even tries to reconnect.
It's driving me crazy, I take it from home to work and us to use it to keep me updated on emails but now if I forget to unlock it it won't scan the remembered wifi network that I'm now on, it just stays dormant until I unlock it which means no email notices or anything pop up.
There's got to be a setting or something to say always scan for networks, I have "never" checked but that does nothing in my opinion.
Observed this on my Nexus 4:
Whenever a call finishes, the network signal goes complete gray for a few seconds (about 5 seconds after the call) before returning back to normal again in a few seconds. During this grayed out period the call doesn't reach the phone (obvious).
This happens even for a rejected call.
Seems major flaw in basic functionality!
Anyone else observed this? give it a try! just after attending a call observe the network strength signal for few seconds.
It will become completely gray then in few seconds it will become empty/black again it will turn to complete gray before returning to normal again.
Logged this defect on google android project page:
codeDOTgoogleDOTcom/p/android/issues/detail?id=48256
hoping this is a software flaw and not hardware.
coolfrenz said:
Observed this on my Nexus 4:
Whenever a call finishes, the network signal goes complete gray for a few seconds (about 5 seconds after the call) before returning back to normal again in a few seconds. During this grayed out period the call doesn't reach the phone (obvious).
This happens even for a rejected call.
Seems major flaw in basic functionality!
Anyone else observed this? give it a try! just after attending a call observe the network strength signal for few seconds.
It will become completely gray then in few seconds it will become empty/black again it will turn to complete gray before returning to normal again.
Logged this defect on google android project page:
codeDOTgoogleDOTcom/p/android/issues/detail?id=48256
hoping this is a software flaw and not hardware.
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It's not a defect. The color of the bars signify two different things. The signify the connection to Google servers. When it's gray, your phone lost connection to the servers but it's not biggie it'll reconnect like you just said. As of course blue means it's connected to Google's servers.
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scream4cheese said:
It's not a defect. The color of the bars signify two different things. The signify the connection to Google servers. When it's gray, your phone lost connection to the servers but it's not biggie it'll reconnect like you just said. As of course blue means it's connected to Google's servers.
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It is NOT related to Google servers. Google comes into play when I am connected to internet which I am not.
No blue bars here. Just White Gray and black (empty). This happening after every call is a biggie in my opinion because during those 10-15 second phone remains out of reach of network.
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Observed this on my Nexus 4:
Whenever a call finishes, the network signal goes complete gray for a few seconds (about 5 seconds after the call) before returning back to normal again in a few seconds. During this grayed out period the call doesn't reach the phone (obvious).
This happens even for a rejected call.
Seems major flaw in basic functionality!
Anyone else observed this? give it a try! just after attending a call observe the network strength signal for few seconds.
It will become completely gray then in few seconds it will become empty/black again it will turn to complete gray before returning to normal again.
Logged this defect on google android project page:
codeDOTgoogleDOTcom/p/android/issues/detail?id=48256
hoping this is a software flaw and not hardware.
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I'm facing the exact same problem. If anyone can provide a solution it would be great. Been using my phone for the past few weeks, except for this problem I'm very happy with the phone.
It's got nothing to do with Google servers..
I'm assuming you have a 2G data plan..
Since calls are routed thro 2g..the data switches off during calls and hence gray.. Check it using a 3g plan.. Or when connected to wifi.. I had the problem.. Then I knew it was how it was built to work.. Cheers..
gauthamnaidu said:
It's got nothing to do with Google servers..
I'm assuming you have a 2G data plan..
Since calls are routed thro 2g..the data switches off during calls and hence gray.. Check it using a 3g plan.. Or when connected to wifi.. I had the problem.. Then I knew it was how it was built to work.. Cheers..
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I'm talking about normal mobile calls, once i make the call & hangup (or when i receive the call & hangup) the network will not be available for few seconds & it would automatically come back again. During that time when someone calls, they would get a message that either the mobile is switched off or not reachable. So it is not about 2g or 3g...
No clue bro.. I haven't faced that till date.. Or at least.. I haven't checked it that way..