Ok so the buit in wireless in my fascinate works well when up close to my router but i find when im more than 30 ft away I get 1 bar or less of signal and it wont connect or if it does it drops or is unusable. But using my laptop which only has 802.11g it connects very well to the router around 30 ft or more..is there something wrong with my phone or are the wireless chips in laptops better? This happens in all roms that ive used from dh12 to eb01 that im using now.
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I'm unrooted and on my third Facinate and all three have had or (have) the same issue as you described. I didn't have this issue with my Dinc or the three Eris's currently in my household.
Sucks huh!?!
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I'm unrooted and on my third Facinate and all three have had or (have) the same issue as you described. I didn't have this issue with my Dinc or the three Eris's currently in my household.
Sucks huh!?!
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yes it's really annoying because I got an expensive 802.11n router and I was hoping that I could at least go around my backyard and in the garage with my phone on wifi the same way I do on my netbook or laptop..but I find that anywhere outside it doesn't even connect. BTW I'm using EB01 SC 2.4 voodo now but this happened in different rom/kernel configurations.
Is there any difference if you disable N on the router, and just use G instead?
I feel your pain man. I have a D-Link DIR-655 and while sitting outside 6' maybe 7' from it, right beside my sliding glass door I have -85 dbm. My son's Eris has -72 dbm up in his bedroom about 60' away. Go figure...
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Is there any difference if you disable N on the router, and just use G instead?
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Mine is slower and worse at distance.
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Mine is slower and worse at distance.
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If it happens on both N and G, then that means it's not an 'n' specific issue. It could be an issue with the antennae (does wifi and 3G use the same one?), the chip, or somewhere else (maybe even if your router isn't actually entirely to spec, and the Fascinate is just more sensitive).
Guys, the fascinate has the worst reception out of any phone I've ever owned. 3g and wifi. Not to be mean, but you can either deal with the problem or sell the phone. I decided to sell it because I just couldn't deal with it anymore.
brian85 said:
Guys, the fascinate has the worst reception out of any phone I've ever owned. 3g and wifi. Not to be mean, but you can either deal with the problem or sell the phone. I decided to sell it because I just couldn't deal with it anymore.
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Mine has had pretty much as good reception as my iPod Touch and laptop wrt WiFi. Never had any problems with 3G, but I've not yet taken it out into some desolate place in the middle of no where (but use it all the time in buildings). So that means they aren't universal problems with the Fascinate. Might have just been a bad batch, or a weird software interaction issue.
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Guys, the fascinate has the worst reception out of any phone I've ever owned. 3g and wifi. Not to be mean, but you can either deal with the problem or sell the phone. I decided to sell it because I just couldn't deal with it anymore.
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Amen brother. Just patiently waiting for the TB to be released.
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Mine has had pretty much as good reception as my iPod Touch and laptop wrt WiFi. Never had any problems with 3G, but I've not yet taken it out into some desolate place in the middle of no where (but use it all the time in buildings). So that means they aren't universal problems with the Fascinate. Might have just been a bad batch, or a weird software interaction issue.
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Not a bad batch. The fascinate just has a very weak antenna...it's pretty much been confirmed everywhere.
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Not a bad batch. The fascinate just has a very weak antenna...it's pretty much been confirmed everywhere.
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Oh man i was hoping someone had come up with some software solution...but if its a hardware issue then i guess i just have to deal with it..im not sure how it works on Android but i know with PCs the drivers you use have a huge impact on the performance of the adapter..i thought maybe someone had come up with a software tweak..bummer
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I posted on this a while back. My Nexus One could get good signal 100ft from the house, my Fascinate barely makes 20.
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Oh man i was hoping someone had come up with some software solution...but if its a hardware issue then i guess i just have to deal with it..im not sure how it works on Android but i know with PCs the drivers you use have a huge impact on the performance of the adapter..i thought maybe someone had come up with a software tweak..bummer
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Unfortunately it's hardware. It just has a really weak antenna. So weak that I had to sell it.
While the Fascinate does have a weak antenna, there is something that may help you, depending on your router and your willingness to try new things. What has vastly helped me on my Wi-fi range is, I flashed my router with DD-WRT and of course customized all of the settings. The power/range of the antennas on the router is MUCH better. I recommend looking into it. Google DD-WRT. I know this doesn't fix the weak antenna on the Fascinate, but hey, it will improve the range on your router to USE your Fascinate further away from it.
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While the Fascinate does have a weak antenna, there is something that may help you, depending on your router and your willingness to try new things. What has vastly helped me on my Wi-fi range is, I flashed my router with DD-WRT and of course customized all of the settings. The power/range of the antennas on the router is MUCH better. I recommend looking into it. Google DD-WRT. I know this doesn't fix the weak antenna on the Fascinate, but hey, it will improve the range on your router to USE your Fascinate further away from it.
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A couple of questions for you.... What brand and model number router are you using?
Are you using both g & n?
How high are your mW's turned up to?
My current router will not work.
Thanks
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A couple of questions for you.... What brand and model number router are you using?
Are you using both g & n?
How high are your mW's turned up to?
My current router will not work.
Thanks
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I run a Netgear N600 WIRELESS DUAL BAND ROUTER (WNDR3400). I run it on MIXED bands, so ALL bands. And I am at 100 mW, as depending on the router it is not smart to go any higher, it can just make everything worse.
Just in case it makes you feel better, the fascinate has extremely low radiation output. I know it's not much, but it's some sort of consolation.
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I run a Netgear N600 WIRELESS DUAL BAND ROUTER (WNDR3400). I run it on MIXED bands, so ALL bands. And I am at 100 mW, as depending on the router it is not smart to go any higher, it can just make everything worse.
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Cool thanks. I will look into this further!
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From the unofficial SE blog:
http://blog.se-nse.net/x10-users-do...yEricssonBlog+(Unofficial+Sony+Ericsson+Blog)
Can anyone confirm this?
I'm on 20 and I still have the problem.
Indonesian x10i
good to know...
Really? Did any one else reporte this bug?
Will check today after the 026
I've had this problem in every single update. Never worked for me, and I am to living in a non good reception area :-\ its rather annoying.
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I've had this problem in every single update. Never worked for me, and I am to living in a non good reception area :-\ its rather annoying.
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I don't live in an area with bad reception and apparently the X10 doesn't suffer from antennagate (sic), I haven't been able to reproduce this problem at all. Thats why I asked this question.
Makes me wonder if this problem has been there all along? However, the guy in the blog post does mention that the update to R2BA020 did resolve his problem... and others claim that it exits in R2BA020 also (see earlier posts), so I don't really know whats the truth value behind this claim.
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I don't live in an area with bad reception and apparently the X10 doesn't suffer from antennagate (sic), I haven't been able to reproduce this problem at all. Thats why I asked this question.
Makes me wonder if this problem has been there all along? However, the guy in the blog post does mention that the update to R2BA020 did resolve his problem... and others claim that it exits in R2BA020 also (see earlier posts), so I don't really know whats the truth value behind this claim.
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I checked with enabling and disabling Flight mode, wireless works...
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I checked with enabling and disabling Flight mode, wireless works...
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Dude... isnt airplane mode supposed to turn off all radios off anyways?
Anyways, the reported issue seems to be more like a side effect of the cellular reception dropping... which in turn causes wifi to loose connection as well.
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Dude... isnt airplane mode supposed to turn off all radios off anyways?
Anyways, the reported issue seems to be more like a side effect of the cellular reception dropping... which in turn causes wifi to loose connection as well.
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I am aware of that, however, i was creating the scenario or I have to wait for my network to drop...Which is rare....
Let me know how can i recreate this without Flight Mode.....
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Let me know how can i recreate this without Flight Mode.....
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My point exactly....
TechGuru_x10 said:
I am aware of that, however, i was creating the scenario or I have to wait for my network to drop...Which is rare....
Let me know how can i recreate this without Flight Mode.....
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U can do that with that silver paper u use to pack food with, put that around ur phone and reception should drop dead
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U can do that with that silver paper u use to pack food with, put that around ur phone and reception should drop dead
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Then I am happy that I am not in Poor Network...
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Dude... isnt airplane mode supposed to turn off all radios off anyways?
Anyways, the reported issue seems to be more like a side effect of the cellular reception dropping... which in turn causes wifi to loose connection as well.
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If you're using switchpro widgets you have the option to turn off network signal keeping wifi on (even GPS or Bluetooth) with the airplane mode.
Yup. Its back. WiFi only remains on when I'm in an area where I wouldn't need to be using WiFi anyway. Great.
I use WiFi (or used to, prior to this last update) at home where the reception is poor. I can just about get a GSM signal indoors, 3G is out of the question, and even then my phone will frequently drop its connection altogether. Before this last update it wasn't too much of a problem as the WiFi remained on regardless of the quality or presence of a mobile signal.
Now I'm back to the good old days of losing my WiFi every time my X10 hunts for a new cell.
for me the same as always! gsm connection drop and so wifi connection....damn SE!!!
Confirmed bug exists in BA023.
I am in an area with poor gsm coverage and when I loose gsm connection I also loose wifi connection. I have to wait until I get gsm connection again and disable-enable wifi to get wifi working. Note that my wifi access point is 2meters from my phone.
I hope this get solved soon.
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What's the "Wifi bug"?
I've never had any problems with connecting to my wifi network. Then again, I almost never have less than 3 bars with my phone signal.
Yep its back.. I live in a poor signal area and it now keeps cutting out each time I lose gsm signal and each time it comes back.
Battery is a lot better as well and the unlock swipe seems more smoother.
One step forward one step back!
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I'm on R2BA023 Nordic Combined and i've had this bug trough all updates.. :-\ and still has
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Sorry for posting this in epic side but they don't seem to have a mesmerize section yet. Yesterday I went in to give my MAC address to the tech guy here at school and I noticed he had an epic.. I noticed he didn't have 3g and I asked him and he told me he has trouble with getting 3g.. Like seriously what is wrong?? I went from the htc desire to this galaxy phone and now I'm down to 1x everywhere.. With the desire I had 3g everywhere but here on campus and with the mesmerize I'm lucky to ever get 3g and when I do it doesn't seem to make a difference.. Is there a setting or something that needs to be changed!?
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Sorry for posting this in epic side but they don't seem to have a mesmerize section yet. Yesterday I went in to give my MAC address to the tech guy here at school and I noticed he had an epic.. I noticed he didn't have 3g and I asked him and he told me he has trouble with getting 3g.. Like seriously what is wrong?? I went from the htc desire to this galaxy phone and now I'm down to 1x everywhere.. With the desire I had 3g everywhere but here on campus and with the mesmerize I'm lucky to ever get 3g and when I do it doesn't seem to make a difference.. Is there a setting or something that needs to be changed!?
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My brother dropped his desire for the mesmerize too. We need to get you guys your own section. I doubt there will be a ton of development on it - but thats besides the point.
have you tried updating profile/prl? His mesmerize seems to get 3g everywhere that i do. Maybe slightly weaker signal, but I think that's carrier not manufacturer driven. I get better service with my Epic than my Hero did.
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I get better service with my Epic than my Hero did.
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x2 Epic has been the best phone signal wise that i've owned. It blows away the signal I was getting on my Moment, TP2, and Hero.
Idk guys.. I'm in okc and it is stick on 1x.. I looked throughout the phone and on samsung abd there are no updates.. I took off phone cover wondering but that didn't help.. Give it a week and I think I may go back to desire if I still have problem :/ I do like the phone though
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x2 Epic has been the best phone signal wise that i've owned. It blows away the signal I was getting on my Moment, TP2, and Hero.
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hate to say this then you didnt try much with the radios, my gf was standing next to me in alabama on a road trip and had 2 bars.. while my epic was just staring at me
I'm just trying to get help.. I would like to keep mesmerize
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My Epic used to get really poor 3g over at my guitarist's house, so try this. Go to Menu>Settings>About Phone>System Updates>Update PRL. Hopefully this will work for you too. Of course this requires doing this in the area where you get poor signal.
Well first I reset it by calling *228 and had no luck.. Called uscc and they come to figure out that the guy at uscc activated it wrong and the data or something was off.. Good to go now thanks for the try guys
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Hey guys. I have noticed ever since i've gotten my Atrix that the wifi is always getting dropped when im inside a bedroom or some 20 ft away from the router. At first i thought it might have been just my router having issues but my laptop never experienced any wifi droppage like that though. The only times i don't get dropped signals are when im actually right infront of my router
I've read that sim-unlocked devices may experience this issue but mine isn't, or at least i don't think it is. I bought it from n AT&T store and im pretty sure they wouldn't sell an unlocked device, ever...
So my question is then, has anyone found a solution to this? I mean it's starting to become a real big hassle having to wait for my connection to come back up so i can continue using my phone
Even if you don't have a solution, please post here if you are also having the same issues because i'd like to know if its just my phone thats defective or not. My brother also bought an Atrix lest than a month ago and its having the same issue so i have no clue if either both our devices are defective or if its a general issues most users are having, cause if so, i think Atrix users should either get a refund or at least an update to fix this issue.
I have the same exact issue on my Bell atrix.
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Same here as well.
No issues with previous devices or the 9700, Torch, Captivate or iPhone that others in the household use or my laptop come to that. Just the Atrix.
Mine is just rooted and currently running GreyBlur but not unlocked.
Just down loaded WiFi Analyzer from the Market to see if that can shed light on the issue.
make sure that you are not on a battary save or custom battary mode, cuz it's droping the wifi connection every time the phone goes to sleep mode.
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O thx was trying to figure it out
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by default wifi goes to sleep as soon as the display goes off. you need to get into advanced wifi settings (wifi settings->menu->advanced) and change sleep policy to never
Now that is a useful bit of info
Thankyou !
Its not the sleep policy all tho that'll help the majority of ppl here. Mine drops during certain load points like getting updates from market or refreshing xda... Now to be honest after flashing the telstra rom it has disappeared.
Hopefully that little bit of code that capped our atrix was the culprit and an update will fix that bad boy
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Yeah I've always had my phone set to performance mode and had the wifi sleep policy always set to never. But still the problem persists
But I guess ill try out the 1.4.2 SBC since that sewed to remedy the problem for one user. Nit sure if it'll work for me though cause I'm w att and that SBF seems to be for Bell Atrixs.
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Wifi & GPS signal on my phone just sucks, so I requested a new device from ATT warranty/exchange department. It should be here next week. I hoped we would get an update to address this yesterday, but I only know of 2-3 people receiving an update this week.
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Yeah I've always had my phone set to performance mode and had the wifi sleep policy always set to never. But still the problem persists
But I guess ill try out the 1.4.2 SBC since that sewed to remedy the problem for one user. Nit sure if it'll work for me though cause I'm w att and that SBF seems to be for Bell Atrixs.
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I have the same problem wifi drops out alot and I have it set to never sleep and performance mode but yet it drops all the time!
By the way DO NOT FLASH THE BELL SBF ON AN ATT DEVICE OR YOU WILL BRICK FOR SURE!
I really hope you att guys can get hspa unlocked similar to the telstra sbf. It has completely changed my phone.
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I'm another one with wifi dropping even with the right configuration. Is an update the only hope to get a decent wifi?
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I have the same problem wifi drops out alot and I have it set to never sleep and performance mode but yet it drops all the time!
By the way DO NOT FLASH THE BELL SBF ON AN ATT DEVICE OR YOU WILL BRICK FOR SURE!
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Haha thx. I was hoping for a response to that before I actually did it just in case people have already tried it or its known that it will brick the device.
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Yep, i have this problem as well. Haven't seen this on LG Optimus X2, also i've got SE Mini X10 for my mom a few days ago and it's behaves much better in this respect, does not drops wi-fi at all. My Atrix drops wi-fi every 10-15 minutes when in the far room, other android phones, nokia phones, laptops and netbooks does not drop connection in the same place, so it's certainly Atrix problem. Let's hope the fix will come
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I have the same problem wifi drops out alot and I have it set to never sleep and performance mode but yet it drops all the time!
By the way DO NOT FLASH THE BELL SBF ON AN ATT DEVICE OR YOU WILL BRICK FOR SURE!
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Am I missing something? I don't think the Bell Atrix has its SBF release. Are you thinking of the Telstra Atrix's SBF?
I found this app called Wifi fixer: https://market.android.com/details?id=org.wahtod.wififixer
Has anyone tried this?
I've noticed my Wifi dropping after 10-20 minutes of being used. It's very annoying. Bell Atrix with sim unlock and rooted
Are you holding it wrong?
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Are you holding it wrong?
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LOL, no. I wish that were the case cause if so, it wouldn't drop the connection when i have it on the table and just play around with it =/
This is why I returned my atrix. I was hoping one of the updates fixed it as I was considering picking the phone back up.
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This is why I returned my atrix. I was hoping one of the updates fixed it as I was considering picking the phone back up.
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To be honest the updates did very little to fix anything... The HSPA+ speeds are dismal and you can barely tell any difference between your previous speeds and new speeds if you're in a 4G area but one thing for sure that the updates did do was, not surprisingly, unrooted us =]
And for us lucky ones with Atrices (same plurality as matrices?) that have wifi issues, Moto was kind enough to not fix this issues which was most likely software and not hardware, as they rolled out 2 OTA's in nice timely fashions!
http://phandroid.com/2012/02/29/spr...e-first-cities-to-receive-4g-lte-by-mid-year/
Who lives in Atlanta? How's the speed?
Thats funny, I was just complaining to some friends about the signal the last 2 days, it as turned on the 27th.
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it would be great if anyone in Atlanta could post up some speed test results substantiating these claims.
I have been waiting patiently for sprint to finally make a move and if people ate really seeing better speeds it may be worth keeping.
So anyone from a great data area able to share?
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Thats funny, I was just complaining to some friends about the signal the last 2 days, it as turned on the 27th.
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If you're in the affected area, maybe update your PRL and see if that gets it back on track? Or maybe it's just all the new speedy users in Atlanta sucking the bandwidth from the rest of us ;]
Heres the thing I live in McDonough (metro ATL) and work in ATL, since this service has been turned on, it seems like the penetration is so much worse, no signal in any building. I'm no noob, so I have done everything I know how to reset the signal, nothing works, 3 phones. And many other friends have the same problem. I'll be complaining to Sprint soon. Now when I'm outside I get a great signal, with the same speed as before this service was turned on, so take that as you will.
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What modem are you on? Try FB15
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Good to see they are actually catching up with their 3G network also
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What modem are you on? Try FB15
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Actually I have all the modems on my sdcard, and now the fb27 thanks to calkulin. Ive always had the best results for signal strength with eg31, best speed with fb21. Just installed fb27, but it hasnt helped the problem Im seeing, this is with my touch and 3 og epics (brother, mom, my og epic). Im also seeing when indoors and use an internet speed test app its choosing out of state servers, but when outside and I have a signal it is choosing a close location, but still jumps from 3/4/5 bars to no bars, and internet speeds drop out about every 15secs for 5 secs. Everything Im saying is well tested on 4 phones, and 1 in 2 places by me, still seeing the same thing. This is either being worked on or just the way the new signal is pulsing.
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Actually I have all the modems on my sdcard, and now the fb27 thanks to calkulin. Ive always had the best results for signal strength with eg31, best speed with fb21. Just installed fb27, but it hasnt helped the problem Im seeing, this is with my touch and 3 og epics (brother, mom, my og epic). Im also seeing when indoors and use an internet speed test app its choosing out of state servers, but when outside and I have a signal it is choosing a close location, but still jumps from 3/4/5 bars to no bars, and internet speeds drop out about every 15secs for 5 secs. Everything Im saying is well tested on 4 phones, and 1 in 2 places by me, still seeing the same thing. This is either being worked on or just the way the new signal is pulsing.
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****, its similar to my town. I'm outside chicago and the network has just been **** for me. Its been getting worse like they have been taking transmitters down each day or something.
Where did you get the other modems? i thought we only had fb15?!?
jeeps, I hope they increase their 3g speeds because this has been hard to deal with. Sometimes I wonder how they get off charging people so much a month for utter crap.
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****, its similar to my town. I'm outside chicago and the network has just been **** for me. Its been getting worse like they have been taking transmitters down each day or something.
Where did you get the other modems? i thought we only had fb15?!?
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You can use any of the modems we have for the og epic, around 11, I didnt count, but close to that. Look for the modem thread qbking77 has on the dev page.
Edit, sorry, forgot this was the og epic thread for a minute lol
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You can use any of the modems we have for the og epic, around 11, I didnt count, but close to that. Look for the modem thread qbking77 has on the dev page.
Edit, sorry, forgot this was the og epic thread for a minute lol
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Yeah, I've used the modems. sadly EC05 and EI22 are the best for me. This F series modem has been an overweight blind date for me.
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Yeah, I've used the modems. sadly EC05 and EI22 are the best for me. This F series modem has been an overweight blind date for me.
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I always loved the dk28 modem.
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Hey everyone. I am stock everything, and my wife grabbed my phone and updated for me, you know, just to be nice.
Anyway, the update screwed my reception. I no longer get 4G at home, and otherwise it's pretty bad. I'm new to the device and haven't done much research yet, but I'm not new to the community. Anyone have a fix? I'm ok with rooting for a proper fix. I haven’t yet because I've been crazy busy with kids and work.
Thanks in advance
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Update: Discovered that mobile network was set to Global, changed to LTE/CDMA, rebooted, and 4G is back, but only 1 bar. I used to get a full or near full signal prior to the update. Anyone else have this problem?
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Nevermind. Only fixed it for a few minutes. Nothing but 3G again. Will flashing the MJ7 modem/radio work? Or will that break stuff?
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Sorry about the thread guys and gals. I'm trying to research things in between making dinner. Eating dinner, bathing my kids, and putting them to bed.
So I found out I can flash old modems over the new build (I think that's right, right?), so I'm looking up info on how to do exactly that, but if someone wants to post instructions, that would be awesome.
Thanks again.
Alright. So I flashed the MJ7 modem, and the results are the same. Poop.
Sad that you can't get a response. I haven't noticed much of difference in MJE and MJ7
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I haven't updated to MJE but I'd like to know about the reception before I do. You'd think they'd improve these things with each update but it seems to get worse with each update.
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I haven't updated to MJE but I'd like to know about the reception before I do. You'd think they'd improve these things with each update but it seems to get worse with each update.
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reception has improved for me from mj7, however, i'm in florida... So I dunno... All depends on area and such.
I ended up taking the update, and used to get speeds between 35-50mbps here in Detroit (there's a Cell Tower less than 500 feet from my house), but since the update, my speeds have gone as high as 70mbps and never slower than 45mbps. Granted, I tested this early in the morning....need to test it when folks are up and traffic gets congested.
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Alright. So I flashed the MJ7 modem, and the results are the same. Poop.
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Maybe there's an outage by you if your getting the same results with different modems. I haven't had any radio issues with the new update. All else fails Odin back and see how it does.
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neopolotin75 said:
Maybe there's an outage by you if your getting the same results with different modems. I haven't had any radio issues with the new update. All else fails Odin back and see how it does.
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I Odin'ed back last night, and the results are the same. It held 4G for a few minutes, then went right back to 3G. So far this morning, if I leave my phone on my desk in my office, it holds a single bar of 4G. Once I go to the living room, it drops to 3G. Like I said, prior to the update, I got nearly full signal. I hope it's an issue with Verizon, and that it's temporary.
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I Odin'ed back last night, and the results are the same. It held 4G for a few minutes, then went right back to 3G. So far this morning, if I leave my phone on my desk in my office, it holds a single bar of 4G. Once I go to the living room, it drops to 3G. Like I said, prior to the update, I got nearly full signal. I hope it's an issue with Verizon, and that it's temporary.
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Your phone will connect to the strongest signal.....so if the 3g is stronger than the 4G it will prefer that unless you force 4g. The bars represent the voice connection and are independent of the 3g/4g which represents the data. Voice wise could be a tower outage or the new radios just suck and same with data. Try rolling back to MJ7 and see if it's the same. I know you said your new so I'd recommend doing some reading on what the db levels represent and so forth.
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neopolotin75 said:
Your phone will connect to the strongest signal.....so if the 3g is stronger than the 4G it will prefer that unless you force 4g. The bars represent the voice connection and are independent of the 3g/4g which represents the data. Voice wise could be a tower outage or the new radios just suck and same with data. Try rolling back to MJ7 and see if it's the same. I know you said your new so I'd recommend doing some reading on what the db levels represent and so forth.
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I did roll back to MJ7 modem with no difference, but you can't roll back the firmware or you get a soft brick. I'm just new to this device, not hacking my phones. Been doing it since my G1
I'm chalking this up to either a Verizon problem, or a change in how the software interprets the signal and displays it. Either way, I'll probably just have to wait for a new update (hopefully KitKat) or end up using SS, rooting, and flashing a custom ROM. A few days time will hopefully help, but I'm cautiously optimistic.
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I did roll back to MJ7 modem with no difference, but you can't roll back the firmware or you get a soft brick. I'm just new to this device, not hacking my phones. Been doing it since my G1
I'm chalking this up to either a Verizon problem, or a change in how the software interprets the signal and displays it. Either way, I'll probably just have to wait for a new update (hopefully KitKat) or end up using SS, rooting, and flashing a custom ROM. A few days time will hopefully help, but I'm cautiously optimistic.
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I gotcha. ? I've seen some people say they have been able to roll back...never understood how some can't and some can. I'm currently running Clean Rom and I've had no issues
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tdetroit said:
I ended up taking the update, and used to get speeds between 35-50mbps here in Detroit (there's a Cell Tower less than 500 feet from my house), but since the update, my speeds have gone as high as 70mbps and never slower than 45mbps. Granted, I tested this early in the morning....need to test it when folks are up and traffic gets congested.
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Probably now connected to band 4 aws.
neopolotin75 said:
I gotcha. ? I've seen some people say they have been able to roll back...never understood how some can't and some can. I'm currently running Clean Rom and I've had no issues
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Yeah CleanROM is what I'm looking into currently. And also making sure my wife stays away from my phone haha.
njfoses said:
Probably now connected to band 4 aws.
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Go Iggles!
Jimmah555 said:
Yeah CleanROM is what I'm looking into currently. And also making sure my wife stays away from my phone haha.
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Lol seems like a good idea
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Noticed my signal has gotten worse since the update as well. Was at our kids Christmas show last night sitting next to the wife and both on our phones, she on a Virgin Mobile Android on Sprints crap network and me on my N3 Verizon 'super phone'....and she had signal and I did not. NOT real happy bout that! Toggling airplane did nothing to help. It was gone. Hers....fine. And I'm paying twice what she is! If this keeps up, I'll have a Note 3 for sale soon.....
Go BEARS