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Better signal unrooted

I bought my ns4g about a week and a half ago coming from a tbolt on Verizon. I got it at 8pm and had it rooted by 9. I immediately installed cm7 and have been using every nightly. My signal was horrible. I had nothing at work and barely one at home. It also would barely hold a wifi signal even when laying the phone right next to my router. I've updated my profile and manually put prl 60679 on the phone and nothing improved. The only time I could get 3g was using the Verizon hybrid prl ( I don't have 4g here). I called sprint and updated the msi? And the lady said I was in great coverage at work and good at home. The signal was so bad in 4 ours of the phone sitting in my pocket doing nothing I lost 50% battery everyday. So this morning I unrooted to take the phone back to sprint for an exchange. I've been using it stock for about an hour and now wifi is good even outside my house and I get 2-3 bars most of the time. Is there any reason why this would be? I have owned about 90% of Verizon's android phones so I'm not new to this, I've just never seen this kind of difference between stock and rooted. I think I will wait and see if it stays like this or gets worse now and switch to the 3d if it is still bad. I switched to the nexus s because I love plain android, butit was so bad before I couldn't even make phone calls or send text unless I got lucky and it would connect.
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the only thing i know on the subject is i left my phone unrooted for a couple of days. never noticed a difference after rooting. seems to be many conflicting reports on signal issues when it comes to the nexus. i have generally lower signal (3g 4g wifi) than my evo. really hope its software related so i can get a fix.

Rooting doesn't affect the phone's radio.
Maybe the ROM was bad?

ive been watching my signal strength for a day and its usually around -86. my evo was always -90 or more

It could be the rom I just don't get it. I've never had a problem with cm7. I'm going to root and fund it stock rooted and see then maybe go with something else
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ive been watching my signal strength for a day and its usually around -86. my evo was always -90 or more
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-86 dbm is a *better* signal than -90 dbm.
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I sat at 101 before now I have 2 bars and I am at 86 now, best it has ever been
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Better look at the second number. Anything below 3 is bad reception.
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krohnjw said:
-86 dbm is a *better* signal than -90 dbm.
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i know. and now mt deactivated evo is at -57

My experience is the same. I get better service stock also. Your wasting your breath here though man. To many sprint engineers here
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rentaric said:
Better look at the second number. Anything below 3 is bad reception.
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so -86 0 asu is bad? but im not having any issues

mikeyinid said:
My experience is the same. I get better service stock also. Your wasting your breath here though man. To many sprint engineers here
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stock as in rom? or unrooted?

Stock rooted. GRJ22 odexed. I use netarchy kernel but stock otherwise.
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stock as in rom? or unrooted?
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mikeyinid said:
Stock rooted. GRJ22 odexed. I use netarchy kernel but stock otherwise.
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damn i like soju 2.6 too. oh well stocks not bad either. i see theres 4 kernels to chose from and 2 are experimental
ok so i flashed my "out_of_the_box" back up and updated prl and profile and my status numbers are the same. i did notice tho that with soju 2.6 i was on evdo rev 0, and now back to stock im on rev A
now wtf? after i flashed a netarchy kernal (stable bfs 2.3.4) im on rev 0 again. what going on here?

Here's what I'm gauging my claim on. I live in a basement apartment so I get awful service anyway. But, on CM7 I can't make a call without it dropping, and mms is out of the question. On stock, I can almost always get through a call and mms sends no problem. I have an airave and its the same story on that. CM7 the mms just sits there with the icon spinning forever. Stock it sends almost instantly. I keep a backup of both and just switch between depending on what I'm doing.
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mikeyinid said:
My experience is the same. I get better service stock also. Your wasting your breath here though man. To many sprint engineers here
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My favorite quote "Engineers are educated beyond their intelligence." Ironically, I am in school for engineering

Now I have a problem. I rooted again and right now I am stock rooted. My signal is back to being bad again. So I can either remain stock or switch back to Verizon or go with 3vo. I came to sprint just for this phone so I can root and play. I don't know what to do. I have 18 days left until my 30 is up...
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I rooted a couple days ago, haven't noticed much of a difference in signal strength practically... BUT my time without signal went from 1% to about 8% . Obviously battery life suffered somewhat.
Currently I'm on EvDO rev. A.
Will continue to post updates.

So I have switched to the hybrid 00001 prl for now and I get decent signal, eve get some at work. I figure if I'm going to switch tithe 3vo in a week I won't go over the 300mb roam limit. Its a shame too I like this phone, I just want something j can play with.
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EVDO rev 0 to rev A switches depending on signal quality.
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How to boost wifi signal?

I dont I need to tell anyone how horribly weak the wifi chip in this phone is. My question is is there a way to boost it in any way? Provide it with more power or something like that?

More power would only fry it. Better reception (i guess that's what you are after) would need better antennas.
Even if more power would help, it would be quite difficult to achieve it. I don't think it could be done from software.

I noticed its quiet weak also wish there was a way to give it a bit of a boost.

are there alternate drivers?

joeyddr said:
are there alternate drivers?
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nope, my wifi seems quiet okay? ;/
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Antenna signal can be increased by applying more mW to the antenna or changing the antenna shape to get more dBi. In our case the 2nd is out of the question unless you're in for a hardware mod. But if there is a specific file which is responsible for that mW parameter than you could potentially give it more juice (I think) and if so it should give you better signal reception and longer range.
Typical WiFi cards are 100mW or less. I think if you look up the FCC specs on our phone it should say what ours output is.
BTW, this will definitely drain your battery faster.

The FCC link to NS4G

The WiFi range on this phone is pathetic.
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From the documents the best channel you should use is channel 6 if you can chose it on your router. It also looks like 802.11g is the standard which gave the largest bBi from it's antenna.
fyi
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My wifi signal is a joke
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Strange, wifi on my phone is a little better than on laptop. Not speed just radius.
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yeah the wifi sucks...
boosting signal strenght on my router did help a little though

Try out wifi tx power. It's on the market and it says it can adjust power suplly on the antenna

will getting a wifi n router help?

Just wait to see if the impending update fixes it. It'll be here this week.
-John
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johnbibbs said:
Just wait to see if the impending update fixes it. It'll be here this week.
-John
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isnt that for sprint users only?

ammarmalik said:
isnt that for sprint users only?
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I haven't read anything on it being one way or the other. Guess we'll know in the next 4 days. I hope it's for all Nexus S users for the sake of those who aren't on Sprint.
-John
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Unfortunately I'm leaving...

Unfortunately due to reception issues causing me to miss business calls. I am unable to keep my nexus s 4g n opted to replace it for the arrive. What am I in for?
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Not really sure what your in for. I have my nexus on boost and have no problems and I use google voice for my main number...i wish you luck.

Good luck, I feared that your problem would of effected me since i barely get 1 bar in my house but luckily, I've had no call problems and actually have quite good call quality but not so much 3G speeds. Have you tried a different NS4G?

Klk450 said:
Good luck, I feared that your problem would of effected me since i barely get 1 bar in my house but luckily, I've had no call problems and actually have quite good call quality but not so much 3G speeds. Have you tried a different NS4G?
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Calls were fine when they got through,half the time I would just get vm. But the data was terrible. Inexcusable.
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Klk450 said:
Good luck, I feared that your problem would of effected me since i barely get 1 bar in my house but luckily, I've had no call problems and actually have quite good call quality but not so much 3G speeds. Have you tried a different NS4G?
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I notice the same issue, not much signal strength but voice quality seems great, though data seems slow.anyone have suggestions?
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wetrabbit444 said:
Calls were fine when they got through,half the time I would just get vm. But the data was terrible. Inexcusable.
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I have no signal issues or data speed problems. I regularly use Netflix over 3g with no buffering or other problems. In fact at work where my EVO had problems staying on 3g my Nexus stays connected and at a stable signal rate. I don't get a lot of calls but when I do they seem to come through fine.
Sorry to hear the you're having issues. Not sure that it's the phone though and not just network problems in your area.
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Wifi problems...

My note always receive low wifi singals n low speed while other devices like ipad n sensation have full signals...can someone help me with that...
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The wifi signal icon sucks.
Its mean nothing...
If you wanna see the real strength of your wifi, check with "wifi analyzer" or similar from market...
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Bt even the download is slower thn other devices

hey dude from th photo the note has 3 lines full which is same with i-pad
just joking hahahaha

I agree about the Wifi. In areas where Wifi is weaker, my iPod Touch performs far better than the Note in connecting

Same issue with me from past two days of usage.
Which version of OS are you using as mine is DDLA1(Unrooted) and I am facing the same issue, I can say this because I have used older firmware version(DDKL1) earlier that was rooted and wifi was excellent.

Never had this problem with all the version I went through. Now I'm on stock rooted LB1
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I agree completely. The Notes wifi is quite weak. Can a new modem improve this?
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the wifi signal is comapriably slower than my old hd2, side by side they are both connected via n signal to the router, note is showing 52mb and the hd2 running android is showing 58mb

I get much better connection on the other side of my house than any previous phone or tablet. I must say that even a couple of metres from the router I can get only a couple of 'bars', but download is still very fast.

jeromepearce said:
I get much better connection on the other side of my house than any previous phone or tablet. I must say that even a couple of metres from the router I can get only a couple of 'bars', but download is still very fast.
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Ok, what modem are you running as my Note has a much slower download than my other devices.
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wifi much slower
Even i have been experiencing the same problem and with that my wifi also loses its network some times. ....also its slower my other phones

Modem does not control wifi.
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I am on basebans lb1 and build lb2

In my case I experience the same low bar and slow speeds. But worst of all, I can't connect to my wireless N router (only G) , the Note doesn't even see it!
I'm on ICS MidNote 2.0
Any ideas?
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Rayan said:
In my case I experience the same low bar and slow speeds. But worst of all, I can't connect to my wireless N router (only G) , the Note doesn't even see it!
I'm on ICS MidNote 2.0
Any ideas?
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Do a search (not being mean/rude, just not at a computer to find it for you) about WiFi on the Note in either this or the Q&A section. I read about a month ago that there's a text file that contains the authorized WiFi bands for your country, and since there's no US ROM the bands listed are incorrect. Of course you have to be rooted to change it (which you are), but I'm not so just living with G.
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Wifi Improved...!
aniketsharma9865 said:
I am on basebans lb1 and build lb2
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I rooted my device yesterday and flashed AbyssNote Kernel 4.2 and Wifi seems to work fine.

i also got this wifi problems, the htc desire hd got a much better signal

This is a big issue with my Note too. Sometimes signal will be showing aa strong, but then I get message....cannot connect to the server. Compared it to my s2, and the s2 had no problems making a connection.
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I don't have this problem anymore after get to change the motherboard..
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[Q] reception

anyone having trouble with 3g reception, my phone seems to turn off the radio entirely every few minutes, it's either full bars and decent 3g or nothing at all, just no network messages

kewlio250 said:
anyone having trouble with 3g reception, my phone seems to turn off the radio entirely every few minutes, it's either full bars and decent 3g or nothing at all, just no network messages
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Are you on stock or custom? I usually just flash the most up to date radio when I have problems like that
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xxxrichievxxx said:
Are you on stock or custom? I usually just flash the most up to date radio when I have problems like that
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both stock and custom (namelessrom) i havent been able to leave base much (USAF) so it might be some sort of interference from something here, but my old phone had no problem getting signal here (galaxy s2)