i am not seeing any threads or complaints about reception. so how is compared to the galaxy nexus and in general? anybody switch to t-moblile from at&t or vice versa? i am with and will be staying with at&t when i get mine. the gnex isn't great with reception so one of the biggest reasons i am sitting on the sidelines waiting for google to pull their heads out of their ass and hoping i get a bump in reception. i wish motorola made more unlocked gsm phones. thoughts or complaints?
No complains here.
Reception is a bit better than the galaxy nexus.
I'll be out in the city today so I'll chime in later with more results.
T-Mobile- New York City
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Never owned a GN and can only comment on UK GSM stuff, but bar wise my N4 has a stronger signal than my HOX.
Seems much better than my s3. Unfair comparison maybe though as my network has just merged with EE in the UK.
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Does seem a bit better than my gnex. Not greatly but a bit.
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anybody think the reception is affecting the battery life greatly or still think it is more chipset or kernel related?
I'm getting full bars where I used to get one or two, way better than my other phones.
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People bars don't mean anything. Go into settings and look at the actual dBm signal strength.
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So Ive had my nexus since launch. The phone I have been waiting for, a google aosp device.
Now Im a pro nexus person but recently the phone has been just getting on my nerves. Im trying to debate if I should call it quits and see if I can get sprint to swap it for another device. My issues with the other devices, is sure the 3D looks nice but in reality its just a gimicky evo. And I wouldnt want any other phone other than the sgs II (maybe) or the new nexus (when it comes out) but I have already sold my evo so i need something.
Here are my issues.
1. The reception issues with my particular handset are awful. In 1X when I have 3g on my Blackberry, wifi sucks ass.
2. No sd card. I dont really know what to say here. I knew this going into this phone so I cant fault the phone there.
3. No back light (I can deal with this thanks to bln)
4. The volume level (loudness) is just wack. Voodoo helps but really its wack.
5. The battery life isnt all that great, some of this could be due to the radio issues.
I guess my only real issue here is the Reception issues. Some times I can barely even send a text.
I dont know. I like my phone kinda.
If your reception is bad primarily at home you can get an airwave free, I did and it works
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My airave did little to help my at home service. I personally had enough with the service issues I had with my nexus. I am running an evo til one of 2 things happen. Either Nexus gets an ota update to address service issues, or the photon drops, whichever comes first. Nexus s is a far superior device to the evo 4g, I am very aware of that. But I have 100x's better service everywhere I go. I miss my nexus already and it hasn't been a day, but I love having awesome service, so its a trade off.
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The loudness of the phone is a bit anouying, when side by side with my girks stock epic is loud
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The update that sounds like is coming will hopefully address most of these issues according to android central.
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my issue with that is it says it addresses 4g and wifi, both of which i never had a problem with. im gonna hold out and if it really fixes the radio ill have get a new nexus.
It says improved signal acquisition. That is what you are looking for.
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quit the nexus s 4G and get the nexus s.
ghost010 said:
quit the nexus s 4G and get the nexus s.
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Trade the NewCastle for the Sam Adams? Both will get you drunk or quench your thirst.
Sit tight and see what the update does.
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quit the nexus s 4G and get the nexus s.
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Your gonna pay the etf on both my lines
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?????
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I can't see anyone here.... with their 3 week old devices! jumping ship so soon.
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Might just buy it for fun. Costs like a nickel or something.
Hahhaahahahahhajahahah
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I'm going to buy the note 2 on subsidy then flip and buy a nex4 and nex10. Lol
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Might just buy it for fun. Costs like a nickel or something.
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Yeah this is how I feel, it's a good phone to use as a replacement or if you're on contract and have ages to go until your upgrade.
However due to the minimal storage space I don't think I'd get one as my main phone.
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Heck no, no USB audio and no card slot=device is dead to me. I will get one for review purposes, but it cannot ever be my daily driver.
It's a good nexus, but it's not a good consumer device. At least in my eyes!
I need a LED Notification Light,
Expandable Memory
5"+ screen!
Those are my requisites! Not for everyone
After a month with the note 2 it will take alot more than stock android and 350€ to make me change my phone. However I convinced a friend to ditch his laggy SE Xperia Neo for a Nexus 4 so I'll get to play with it for a while
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Way to in love with my note to leave
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I'm not leaving but I am buying one.
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This is a scenario where I'm glad I don't have an LTE plan. I have an international Note 2 (AT&T) and will be getting a Nexus 4 for portability. They both use a micro-SIM and both are HSPA+, so I can swap the SIM and go without hassle. If you have an LTE phone and plan, HSPA+ speeds are terrible.
Best of both worlds. Selling my GNEX (which I kept for portability) to finance the Nexus 4. No more SIM tray adapters!
I'm getting ~6mbps on HSPA+ and have exactly zero NEED for LTE. My data is plenty fast, thank you very much!
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This is a scenario where I'm glad I don't have an LTE plan. I have an international Note 2 (AT&T) and will be getting a Nexus 4 for portability. They both use a micro-SIM and both are HSPA+, so I can swap the SIM and go without hassle. If you have an LTE phone and plan, HSPA+ speeds are terrible.
Best of both worlds. Selling my GNEX (which I kept for portability) to finance the Nexus 4. No more SIM tray adapters!
I'm getting ~6mbps on HSPA+ and have exactly zero NEED for LTE. My data is plenty fast, thank you very much!
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Not sure that is accurate as i have AT&T also with LTE service and im seeing 6-12 mbps on my international Note 2 and 21-25 mbps on my HTC One XL.
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Not sure that is accurate as i have AT&T also with LTE service and im seeing 6-12 mbps on my international Note 2 and 21-25 mbps on my HTC One XL.
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Ok well I was basing it off of my short stint with a Lumia 900. They changed my plan to LTE and when I put the SIM in my Galaxy Nexus, the speeds were very poor. Ended up having to give them an Atrix IMEI to get speeds over 300kbps. After the LTE was removed and my data was re-provisioned to HSPA+ (on the Atrix IMEI, a recognized "4g" ATT phone) my speeds went back to 5mbps.
Maybe it's been fixed (LTE vs. HSPA+ speeds) but I didn't have a good experience with an LTE plan and a non-LTE phone.
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It's a good nexus, but it's not a good consumer device. At least in my eyes!
I need a LED Notification Light,
Expandable Memory
5"+ screen!
Those are my requisites! Not for everyone
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+1...exactly what i mean
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No way, i buy a Nexus wen have a 5+ in. screen version
The N4 in the United States will be recognize as the world's greatest prepaid phone. But still no match for the Note 2.
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I have Galaxy Nexus and been waiting for N4 but after seeing N4 specs. I got Note 2 yesterday
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The Nexus 4 can be a great compliment device to the Note 2 but it can't ever replace it. EVER. The price difference is a good indicator of this.
Great for if you have a spare sim around.
zkyevolved said:
It's a good nexus, but it's not a good consumer device. At least in my eyes!
I need a LED Notification Light,
Expandable Memory
5"+ screen!
Those are my requisites! Not for everyone
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it does have LED notification light
anyway my hand is itching to get that nexus 10! its an absolute beast! specs/price/software support! it a damn steal!! :good:
I honestly don't know what's causing this, I get solid 3.0MB/s at home(not Mbit/s) and at work I get 7-15kB/s. I walk around the house I work in, inside and out to no avail, any tips and help would be greatly appreciated.
Dhero
Also called T-Mobile they said there was good HSPA+ coverage where I am. Interference? Neighbor running a jammer?
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dyinghero27 said:
I honestly don't know what's causing this, I get solid 3.0MB/s at home(not Mbit/s) and at work I get 7-15kB/s. I walk around the house I work in, inside and out to no avail, any tips and help would be greatly appreciated.
Dhero
Also called T-Mobile they said there was good HSPA+ coverage where I am. Interference? Neighbor running a jammer?
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Noooo, it's not your neighbor. LOL.
Has this happened to your before you got the n4?
If you work in a office building, walls could be the culprit that you are not getting fast down speeds. Maybe t mobile is refarming the area where you work. There are dozens of possibilities why you're not getting speedy down speeds. Do not rely completely on t mobile's coverage map, no carrier's coverage map is 100 percent accurate.
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It happened to me last week but I am on straight talk at&t sim card.too days after refilling up service I was getting 120-190 kbps /when I was getting before with s2 was 5000mbps -7000mbps so I called straight talk and they refresh my service and now I'm getting good speeds again
Don't take T-Mobiles word for it. Look at the coverage area map on their site and see how coverage is in your area compared to where you work, then troubleshoot from there. Could be walls of the building or just coverage issue. Compared to average speed on the N4 3Mbs is petty slow. I get that for my upload for example.
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Don't take T-Mobiles word for it. Look at the coverage area map on their site and see how coverage is in your area compared to where you work, then troubleshoot from there. Could be walls of the building or just coverage issue. Compared to average speed on the N4 3Mbs is petty slow. I get that for my upload for example.
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He said 3MB/s which is different than 3Mbps. (i've started using the switches now AND case sensitive Bs because people still don't notice the difference Maybe we should just go 3MiB instead now as that would stand out more )
Then again getting 3MB/s would equate to about 27Mbps straight.... even DC-HSPA+ might have a tough time doing that other than for a burst here and there.
Definitely not a building issue, as its a small house where I watch clients. Even walked around the house to see if I could get better speeds. My bars are full, T-Mobile is just spotty I guess. Also never happened on my defy, guy at tmobile said it was my phone, I lol'd hard and walked out of the store.
And thank you for noticing that I used MegaByte rather then Megabit. For those unknowing, there's eight bits in a byte
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Go outside your work and see if speeds are improved. I'm thinking that the walls of your building are made up of something that's brutal on RF penetration.
I'm having a similar issue. I get great speeds at home and at work. But it's pretty much unusable at my school. I know it was working fine before the winter break so it leads me to think that the issue started after they enabled the 1900 band here in San Antonio.
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Ascertion said:
Go outside your work and see if speeds are improved. I'm thinking that the walls of your building are made up of something that's brutal on RF penetration.
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Like aluminum siding, it's kryptonite to T-Mobile's signal.
Just seems like a hole in the signal, probably a temporary thing, but data speeds don't pick up for around a mile radius.
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Just seems like a hole in the signal, probably a temporary thing, but data speeds don't pick up for around a mile radius.
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Typical T-Mobile, I have the same type of signal black hole around my house and its been there for over 10 years.
Good news, flashed Franco kernel and can see an increase from the 7-10kB/s to about 50-130kB/s strange thing is, upload speed is up to par at 1.3MB/s
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Though I would try this I have a Rogers unlocked Droid Razr HD gsm XT925 I'm in Fort Worth Texas USA. Would like to known of other users with same device and their location,experience and general thoughts about device
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I sold my GS3 and bought this phone. I am definitely happy with the switch.
I'm using my XT925 on Long Island, NY. I'm constantly getting H+ or LTE (in some areas that have LTE).
Phone is great. Battery life is f***ing awesome.
I am coming from the GneX which I had a little over a year your correct on the battery life it doubles what I was getting my reception isn't quite as strong as your getting, I'm on T-Mobile lte is limited here but I am a happy camper thanks for the reply
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I've noticed I'm getting LTE signals where I wasn't getting with my S2/S3/NOTE2.
does this phone have stronger radios?
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Jamolah said:
I've noticed I'm getting LTE signals where I wasn't getting with my S2/S3/NOTE2.
does this phone have stronger radios?
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Yes. Motorola has always been known for having the best radios and antenna arrays. Obviously there are some exceptions but as a whole this would be true.
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Jamolah said:
I've noticed I'm getting LTE signals where I wasn't getting with my S2/S3/NOTE2.
does this phone have stronger radios?
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It sure seems that way. Getting better signal/speed pretty much everywhere compared to my HTC One.
It has dual LTE antennae, whereas most phones only have one. The not only help get a better signal, but should help the battery life since it won't have to search as much to keep a good signal.
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I see 2 bars of 4G at my house where I've never seen it before. Of course my SGN was always a bit wimpy on the signal. I still live in a fringe area, I can also see 1 bar of 1x if I'm standing in the wrong spot.
My wife just got an iPhone 5s (replaced her 4s) and sitting next to each other in the kitchen they both shows 2 bars of 4g and can pull ~13MB down on the speedtest app. Pretty impressive considering how spotty the signal is around here.
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It sure seems that way. Getting better signal/speed pretty much everywhere compared to my HTC One.
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Agreed.
X > HTC ONE >> N4.
Forgot where the n5 fell in the spectrum.
On my S2 I had to go outside to make a call... Even to send a text sometimes.... In the boonies and have really bad reception here in general. Part of my decision between the G2, HTC one and the moto x was motorolas reputation of having the best radio hardware and signal strength. And I want disappointed. I can make calls and text in the house now with one to 2 bars on average... Where my S2 often had no signal at all. Very happy!
Especially cause winter is here... No more freezing my tail off to make a call.
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