OK, sprint or Google really needs to come out with a fix for this problem. The nexus s only has full bars in certain areas but once you travel out these "spheres", reception drops tenfold. Wtf sprint and Google?
This is pretty inexcusable. Sometimes it gets so bad that service drops altogether aand the only way to get back service is to reboot the phone. I should NOT have to be doing this. Anyone experiencing the same issues?
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Im in NYC and i have the worst reception with this phone. It goes from three bars to zero without even moving the dc for than 2 inches. Sometimes it drops completely then comes back full bars with the 1x symbol in place of the 3g icon. Does it just keep jumping from tower or signal or something? This is very frustrating since i switched from my iPhone which had FULL bars everywhere, for this. Is there an option in the settings that can help me out?
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maybe you should move.
That's true.
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maybe try an antenna booster!
http://www.cellphoneshop.net/antennabooster.html
can't beat the prices
Try a factory reset.
I have a long thread about this on the motorola forums. Long story short, call *611. Tell them about the signal fluctuations. Especially if you experience no signal often. They sent me a replacement phone to my hotel in Newark (not here by choice, i swear) and i've had nothing but 4 bars since. Search for BigForNothing on the Droid X motorola forums. Reception problems. Should be good to go from there. Verizon was very quick and helpful in getting me my replacement.
I'd try a factory reset and if that does not help, get the phone replaced. The Droid X has a very powerful antenna in it and should perform very well even in the more fringe areas.
Thanks for the heads up, im definitely calling vzw today.
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Did a factory reset before i rooted or updated to their first ota update (it has had bad reception since out of the box). Just tried *229 option one then again with option 2 (option two froze my phone after it was done and i had to pull the battery out to restart). I even tried* 22899 but i did all this while i was in harlem where i have full bars all the time so i have to wait til i get home to see if there is any improvement.
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Wondering if they will service my phone at the store if its rooted.
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Just went to a verizon store and they said they would have exchanged it on the spot but they didn't have any in stock.
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Im in NYC and i have the worst reception with this phone. It goes from three bars to zero without even moving the dc for than 2 inches. Sometimes it drops completely then comes back full bars with the 1x symbol in place of the 3g icon. Does it just keep jumping from tower or signal or something? This is very frustrating since i switched from my iPhone which had FULL bars everywhere, for this. Is there an option in the settings that can help me out?
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The algorithm used for the display on the iphone has been admitted to being incorrect by apple. The display in bars is showing more service than you actually have; even worse when they still drop calls
MANY gingerbread phones have reported signal issues. The DX being one of the worst. The recently released 602 update was supposed to fix the issue with an updated baseband. However, I am still having problems with random wifi and signal loss. usually without the lost signal icon. The phone simply stops exchanging any data. As if in airplane mode but no indication of it.
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Why does my phone show full signal yet all apps that use mobile data either run shockingly slow or not at all!! My steam app is constantly reconnecting yet signal is constant! In BBS it's showing i have good signal for a matter of minutes and is mostly showing poor or unknown signal nearly the whole time the phone is on!
My set up is the latest AOKP rom and faux's kernel
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Why does my phone show full signal yet all apps that use mobile data either run shockingly slow or not at all!! My steam app is constantly reconnecting yet signal is constant! In BBS it's showing i have good signal for a matter of minutes and is mostly showing poor or unknown signal nearly the whole time the phone is on!
My set up is the latest AOKP rom and faux's kernel
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Could be you only have full bars of 2G data speed. You are either being throttled for excessive use from your carrier or your carrier only has 2G speeds where you live. Where I work the entire county only has 2G Edge speeds from AT&T even though their coverage map shows 3G for the area. Check your data type and speeds with an app like Network Signal info.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.android.telnet&hl=en
Happens to me a lot as well. I show full 4g and yet everything times out and wont load because data is so slow. I'm also in a good coverage area where i get 12-14 Mbps speed with other phones and when this one is acting normal.
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The towers you are connecting to are probably overloaded. Thin of them as a wireless access point at your house with 1 internet line. If too many connect to and use that line, the connection gets slower. Would be nice if cell providers posted tower stats in your area. Would save a lot of angry calls
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The towers you are connecting to are probably overloaded. Thin of them as a wireless access point at your house with 1 internet line. If too many connect to and use that line, the connection gets slower. Would be nice if cell providers posted tower stats in your area. Would save a lot of angry calls
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I think in my situation it is not this. My wife has an HTC one s and my brother a sgs2 and they will have great data speed while i have dead slow even though we are on the same carrier and in the same room.
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Got the same problem
My pbone is acting wired showing full signal but no traffic gets through
Also sometimes the signal just greys out and i dont get any connection until switching flightmode and back
Im at aokp to... Maybe its relaxed to the rom
Im on Stock kernel
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Got the same problem
My pbone is acting wired showing full signal but no traffic gets through
Also sometimes the signal just greys out and i dont get any connection until switching flightmode and back
Im at aokp to... Maybe its relaxed to the rom
Im on Stock kernel
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Happened to me on stock, cm, aokp, and now pa. I don't know what it is. I just hope an update will fix it.
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Glad im not the only one suffering.. I didnt really have the problem on stock so much.. just since unlocking and flashing new roms.
To the person who mentioned carrier throttling, its certainly not that as one minute i'll get full speed and the next (youtube for example) will just stop and start saying no signal retry and then if i turn the phone off and back on again it will work. How can a carrier throttle you when you only have a 2Gb usage limit and then they charge you afterwards that makes no sense.
Also its not a 2G problem as Signal checker shows 3G and also now EE all around my area. Besides my wife's S3 on the same network is getting full speeds where im not or anything even though im apparently at full strength H
I hope this gets sorted soon as its also affecting calls.. I'll have what looks like full signal while playing a game then suddenly a text to say someone tried ringing me like 3 minutes before!!
probably switching from HSDPA to HSPA+.
did you notice a H on top of your signal bar, that switches to H+ when the lag is over?
I have had this problem for a long time, since I got my Galaxy Nexus and now again on my Nexus 4, and finally got so fed up that I have been testing it all day and getting screenshots ready to make my own post about this so I am pretty relieved to see this post!
I live in Philadelphia and use T-Mobile. I have had T-Mobile here for years and never had this problem before. When they upgraded to 3G I had amazing speed boosts and when they did HSPA+ it got even better but that was on a G1/G2. On my Nexus phones the internet is damn near unusable in center city but what is so odd about it is that in my Google searches about the problem I can only seem to find posts raving about T-Mobile in the city and how Philly keeps getting improvements including the new improved 1900Mhz HSPA+42 but I have never even seen my Nexus 4 on the +42 network the best it goes to is +15 and even that makes no difference because the internet is so slow and unrelaible that unless I am on Wifi, my phone just sits in my pocket useless.
I'm really at my wits end about this and no one, Google or T-Mobile seems to take responsibility or have any advice on how to fix it except the pointless factory reset.
I've seen a brief mention on XDA about a fast.tmobile.com APN and I changed to that and I'd like to imagine that it showed some type of improvements but certainly not with data speeds/latency/integrity of connection. If anything, it may have improved signal 'strength' (used lightly because regardless of what my strength is listed as the connection sucks.
To be clear, I am connected to HSPA and HSPA+ when the connection is being used, like it should, but these are the best speeds I managed to get throughout the day today as I moved around campus trying different spots.
Please, someone have advice!!
Could it be kennel related? Did you guys try just being on stock ROM?
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Could it be kennel related? Did you guys try just being on stock ROM?
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I am using the stock kernel, stock radio although not the stock ROM. I am pretty sure I had this problem before I rooted (I say pretty sure to be conservative with my answer since I am not 100% sure but I am definitely 90%)
Is anyone confident about their knowledge regarding APN settings? I have seen like 15 different configurations for T-Mobile's APN and have no idea which one to try and would prefer not to just go through them one by one -- I've got things to do!
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Could it be kennel related? Did you guys try just being on stock ROM?
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Again.. I'm pretty sure i didn't have this problem while on stock but i could be wrong. My GNex was exactly the same. And I'm on orange UK so completely different network to the T-Mobile USA so surely can't be random that we're both having the same problems
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I had the same slowness over cellular, 9kbps or so. I changed APN's, rebooted and just got 2463kbps.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1791526
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I had the same slowness over cellular, 9kbps or so. I changed APN's, rebooted and just got 2463kbps.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1791526
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Will this only work for at&t users though?
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I'm on stock 4.2.1. Phone is rooted and boot loader unlocked. For about two days now I'm having signal drops from 4bars, then greyed out 4 bars and jumps between H to 3G. Settings for LTE revert to WCDMA every time I lose reception. Also dialer crashes/ force closes if I have an incoming call and sends all calls to voicemail. I can dial out but at the end of my calls when I go to hang up I see the popup that phone process crashed.
My carrier is Bell Canada and the phone worked fine for about 10 days before this started happening.
Any tips or advice to help me out is appreciated. Thanks.
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I am in a decent coverage zone but find that my nexus 4 drops in and out of service a lot. Is anyone else on AT&T experiencing this?
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Same here in Chicago. I just go into mobile networks and check 2G only. The only bad thing about it is when you make a call or receive, it sounds like its going I cut drop. Right now I have 2g checked off and I'm getting surprisingly good signal with regular hspa.
Hi guys,
I live in an area with very weak 4g and 3g service. So I picked up a verizon network extender. It works, but I notice the phone after a while starts getting hot and it looks like the data is jumping around, so to speak, The phone is hot and very slow so I know its confused trying to swap from the extender to maybe what I think is very weak 4g service.
Since I'm on kitkat, i cant disable LTE when I'm home. Any other things you can think of to fix this issue? It's driving me crazy!
I have a network extender and I dont have this issue where I live I have very weak 4g signal as well might be your phone
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Yeah the extender shouldn't be able to do that to the phone. You might have to send your phone in
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spinkick said:
Hi guys,
I live in an area with very weak 4g and 3g service. So I picked up a verizon network extender. It works, but I notice the phone after a while starts getting hot and it looks like the data is jumping around, so to speak, The phone is hot and very slow so I know its confused trying to swap from the extender to maybe what I think is very weak 4g service.
Since I'm on kitkat, i cant disable LTE when I'm home. Any other things you can think of to fix this issue? It's driving me crazy!
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The extenders aren't real good thru walls or floors and are only good for about 30 feet from your phone. If you have a lousy home internet connection...you could have issues also
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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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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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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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