weird battery - Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

i got my nexus 4 two days ago. it was great, but found out the battery is weird. when it is 99% charged, it says a few seconds if battery life left. when its 12% on battery, it says i have 12 hours of battery... why is that? do i need to contact them to get another one? and the battery life is not very good... my friend who have the same phone, has a greater battery life than mine.
does low signal affect the battery life?
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Yes, the lower the signal is, the phone will have to transmit with higher power to reach the cell towers
It has a VERY high impact on battery life!
Which app tells you that remaining time?
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the battery settings lol
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Did u get the ota update. 4.2.2 is suppose to improve battery life. I have no complaints about battery life and that's what I'm on.
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it came with 4.2.2. fully charged in the morning and it's already 44 percent now at 3pm...i guess it's because of my phone signal... it's always below 3 bars... att sucks
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Unless ur trapped in a contract, try another carrier that has better reception in ur area.
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Jusnice said:
Unless ur trapped in a contract, try another carrier that has better reception in ur area.
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I'll have to stuck with it for a month! Planning to switch to t-mobile. People in my dorms are saying good things about it.
So if the 3g network signal always stays high, the battery life can last one day when mobile data is on 24/7?

Gemichi said:
I'll have to stuck with it for a month! Planning to switch to t-mobile. People in my dorms are saying good things about it.
So if the 3g network signal always stays high, the battery life can last one day when mobile data is on 24/7?
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I got the $30 plan wit T-Mobile and couldn't be happier. I'm 4G jus about everywhere in the Boston area. It sucks that the nexus⁴ won't truly be able to get LTE whichT-Mobile is getting this year.
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Jusnice said:
I got the $30 plan wit T-Mobile and couldn't be happier. I'm 4G jus about everywhere in the Boston area. It sucks that the nexus⁴ won't truly be able to get LTE whichT-Mobile is getting this year.
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What make it worst is the carrier I have, is a att's MVNO...it won't even help me configure mobile data correctly. Now, my mobile data always get disconnected and reconnect...worst carrier ever had!
Still, the reverse predict battery is really weird...

You're seeing the time on battery backwards. It's only showing how much time has passed while the phone has been using battery. It does not have anything to do with time remaining.

you read the wrong thing; the number you read tells you how long the phone has been disconnected
& the battery setting never tells you how much time you have left on battery unless you download an app that lets you do that

oh. oops the longest i ever saw is 20 hours..
I'll try to have it on without simcard for a day and see.
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Ok, I put the carrier's sim card into my old device (Xperia Neo V) and I'm getting almost full to full signal...anyone can explain this?
and on my Nexus 4, the mobile data kept on disconnecting itself, but it won't on the Neo V...

Gemichi said:
Ok, I put the carrier's sim card into my old device (Xperia Neo V) and I'm getting almost full to full signal...anyone can explain this?
and on my Nexus 4, the mobile data kept on disconnecting itself, but it won't on the Neo V...
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Are you on the latest update? 4.2.2? If not, try updating. If you are on the latest radio...then possibly the nexus has a weaker radio than your Xperia or the radio is defective. Try someone else's T-mobile sim in your phone see if it has the same issues. If you still have issues, a factory reset is always a good option. If that doesn't help then RMA or sell it and get another phone. Good luck

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Are you on the latest update? 4.2.2? If not, try updating. If you are on the latest radio...then possibly the nexus has a weaker radio than your Xperia or the radio is defective. Try someone else's T-mobile sim in your phone see if it has the same issues. If you still have issues, a factory reset is always a good option. If that doesn't help then RMA or sell it and get another phone. Good luck
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Ya its on 4.2.2. I'll those later. So I can't ask Google to replace a new one?

Gemichi said:
Ya its on 4.2.2. I'll those later. So I can't ask Google to replace a new one?
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IDK if you'll get them to give you a new one....but you can try. You can certainly get them to repair it if anything.

I factory restored it before doing other steps. The wifi went back to "normal". On the 5GHz wifi, I'm getting 50mbps download testing the battery life without the sim card to see if it is really the weak signal causing the problem.

I'm willing to bet it will when I'm home and upstairs I have 3 or 4 bars of signal I can get 5 plus hours of screen on time I go downstairs where I have one bar or two I'm lucky to get three hours of screen on time and less then 15 hours before I have to charge the phone
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that's weird. I'm living on the third floor and I'm always getting two to three bars. never got full signal unless i walk outside the building...
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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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-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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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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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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No signal on T-Mobile

Im using T-Mobile and yesterday I got that empty service bars on the notification and it could only make emergency calls. Happens from time to time didn't think anything of it but I left the house and I'm still not getting any service. I was running paranoid android June 6 build so I tried switching ROMs and kernels but still no signal . of course I took out sim and rebooted the phone. I even put my sim on another phone and it work got signal and put there sim in my phone and wouldn't get any signal either. I ran out of options any help is greatly appreciated
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castro08 said:
Im using T-Mobile and yesterday I got that empty service bars on the notification and it could only make emergency calls. Happens from time to time didn't think anything of it but I left the house and I'm still not getting any service. I was running paranoid android June 6 build so I tried switching ROMs and kernels but still no signal . of course I took out sim and rebooted the phone. I even put my sim on another phone and it work got signal and put there sim in my phone and wouldn't get any signal either. I ran out of options any help is greatly appreciated
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This happened on my first nexus 4. Nothing fixed it. Nothing. Hopefully your situation is different. If nothing works, flash back to stock and start the RMA process. Google said it was a hardware failure with mine by the way.
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castro08 said:
Im using T-Mobile and yesterday I got that empty service bars on the notification and it could only make emergency calls. Happens from time to time didn't think anything of it but I left the house and I'm still not getting any service. I was running paranoid android June 6 build so I tried switching ROMs and kernels but still no signal . of course I took out sim and rebooted the phone. I even put my sim on another phone and it work got signal and put there sim in my phone and wouldn't get any signal either. I ran out of options any help is greatly appreciated
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do you have your phone info set to lte only?
How do you check that? *#*#4636#*#* ? If so that's on wcda prefer
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Exodian said:
This happened on my first nexus 4. Nothing fixed it. Nothing. Hopefully your situation is different. If nothing works, flash back to stock and start the RMA process. Google said it was a hardware failure with mine by the way.
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Did your happen when you first got it or after you had it for awhile? And what's the RMA process
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The periodic loss of signal was there since day. I still have it on my new one. Others do as well, but one day it went out and never came back on. I believe it was a different issue than just random signal loss. Google said hardware failed in it. You have to contact Google to start an RMA. I'm also not implying that your signal won't come back on at some time either. Personally I would flash everything back to stock. Go to a t mobile store and get a new Sim card and if no signal still then contact Google
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Under settings, then data, then mobile networks, then to network operators.
let it search, even if it doesn't find anything or errors.
Then click choose automatically.
If you frequently travel out of 3g/H areas, you need that checked or the phone won't roam from tower to tower. you will get no signal.
Also, if that don't work, you can try clicking on a network it finds, and let it register, your signal may come back.
This is a common problem with those that don't live in big cities or near full strength 3g/h areas.
The phone doesn't handle tower handoffs well. Crappy LG modems.
Exodian said:
The periodic loss of signal was there since day. I still have it on my new one. Others do as well, but one day it went out and never came back on. I believe it was a different issue than just random signal loss. Google said hardware failed in it. You have to contact Google to start an RMA. I'm also not implying that your signal won't come back on at some time either. Personally I would flash everything back to stock. Go to a t mobile store and get a new Sim card and if no signal still then contact Google
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Thank for your help that what I'll have to do only problem is I traded an s3 for this phone on CL so if it hardware I think I'm SOL but thanks for your help
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kthejoker20 said:
Under settings, then data, then mobile networks, then to network operators.
let it search, even if it doesn't find anything or errors.
Then click choose automatically.
If you frequently travel out of 3g/H areas, you need that checked or the phone won't roam from tower to tower. you will get no signal.
Also, if that don't work, you can try clicking on a network it finds, and let it register, your signal may come back.
This is a common problem with those that don't live in big cities or near full strength 3g/h areas.
The phone doesn't handle tower handoffs well. Crappy LG modems.
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I tried this and when I click T-Mobile or att it says this sim card can not pick up a connection but the sim card works on other T-Mobile phones
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castro08 said:
I tried this and when I click T-Mobile or att it says this sim card can not pick up a connection but the sim card works on other T-Mobile phones
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Try getting a new Sim from t mobile and reflashing the radio
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Try getting a new Sim from t mobile and reflashing the radio
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Thanks will do but why would my sim card work on other phones and other sims not work on mine
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castro08 said:
Thanks will do but why would my sim card work on other phones and other sims not work on mine
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Most likely wouldn't but it would be one more "possible" problem eliminated.
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Exodian said:
This happened on my first nexus 4. Nothing fixed it. Nothing. Hopefully your situation is different. If nothing works, flash back to stock and start the RMA process. Google said it was a hardware failure with mine by the way.
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I'm currently going through the RMA process over virtually the exact same issue. However, I've been running franco's nightlies lately and up until he restored the HSIC/wifi stuff to stock in r154 I was actually experiencing less data drops and rapid tower swapping (constantly going from 3g to H and back rendering consistent data inoperable). *shrug* I feel as if it's something in the hardware on the cusp of failing because sometimes it does it more and sometimes it does it less. It's rather weird. I'm also on T-mobile towers through an MVNO (Straight Talk).
I just cancelled and switched to ATT go phone.
I have RMA'd 2 devices, tried multpie new simcards, relflashed, tried new radios, and nothing worked.
It no longer switches from 3g to H on ATT network.
It stays in H constantly.
Also, no more signal drops or loss of signal.
I have 100% signal all the time now.
The data is a little more expensive, but worth it for the coverage so far.
It's not your phone, it's the tmobile network.

Poor signal

So has anyone found a solution to the bad reception and 4glte bouncing around to no service. I've read several forums so I'm not the only one . It just pisses me off that I paid full price and Verizon gives you the run around and wants to send you a certified replacement. What a joke. We are in desperate need of an update.
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cam1pbell said:
So has anyone found a solution to the bad reception and 4glte bouncing around to no service. I've read several forums so I'm not the only one . It just pisses me off that I paid full price and Verizon gives you the run around and wants to send you a certified replacement. What a joke. We are in desperate need of an update.
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I find it helps to turn on airplane mode then turn it off. Resetting the radios often helps it pick up 4g again.
We shouldn't have to keep toggling just to maintain lte. I called Verizon the other day and they put in a ticket but I don't think much is going to come of it.
This phone's reception is much weaker than the droid DNA. In places I got steady 4g, it now goes back and forth from 3g.
The signal strength is like a good 10-20+dbs worse than the DNA in the same spots. (I'm pretty much only at work and home do nothing's changed except the phone).
Sometimes with this phone, it'll show connected to lte (1-2 bars on the icon) but I can't get anything to load. No websites, no rhapsody streaming, nothing. All apps time out trying to connect. But that might be just a specific area at work. Regardless, I'm sure that even at home, the signal strength is always over -100 when the DNA would regularly be sub -100
So annoying.
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dwkeepinup said:
We shouldn't have to keep toggling just to maintain lte. I called Verizon the other day and they put in a ticket but I don't think much is going to come of it.
This phone's reception is much weaker than the droid DNA. In places I got steady 4g, it now goes back and forth from 3g.
The signal strength is like a good 10-20+dbs worse than the DNA in the same spots. (I'm pretty much only at work and home do nothing's changed except the phone).
Sometimes with this phone, it'll show connected to lte (1-2 bars on the icon) but I can't get anything to load. No websites, no rhapsody streaming, nothing. All apps time out trying to connect. But that might be just a specific area at work. Regardless, I'm sure that even at home, the signal strength is always over -100 when the DNA would regularly be sub -100
So annoying.
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Yes it is very annoying. Thanks for feedback. I still love the phone. For such a beast of a phone it should have 5 five bars all the time. Lol
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The update did not fix my poor reception issues. Anyone else still having problems?
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The update did not fix my poor reception issues. Anyone else still having problems?
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The update made my phone snappier. As far as the signal , I think it might have helped a little bit. I know it doesn't sit there for a few seconds when calling someone. It used to take forever.
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Okay here's where I'm at now this phone is really pissing me off I've been stuck in 3G all day long. It bounces back and forth so when I get off work tonight I'm going to call Verizon and see what they can do.?
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I just switched from my SGS3 to the new Note 3 and my reception is much better now.
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cam1pbell said:
Okay here's where I'm at now this phone is really pissing me off I've been stuck in 3G all day long. It bounces back and forth so when I get off work tonight I'm going to call Verizon and see what they can do.?
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The antennas in this phone blows it's no other way around it.
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I think I'm going to sell my note 3 and buy the developer addition. Only problem is I paid full price. I'm willing to lose a couple hundred bucks for a good signal.
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The antennas in this phone blows it's no other way around it.
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garbage
If being better than the GS3 "blows" then okay.....
Not only is my cellular reception much better, my wifi reception is much better too. Good enough that in places that both didn't work before I now get at least usable 1x or one bar 3g/4g data.
I also had the gs3 . This phone by far kicks the gs3 butt. I will agree the gs3 signal is twice as good. My galaxy note 3 works awesome if I'm not at work or in my house. It is what it is.
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Well I switched modems. So hopefully my signal improves. MJE firmware rooted with MI9 modem
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cam1pbell said:
Well I switched modems. So hopefully my signal improves. MJE firmware rooted with MI9 modem
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Is MJE any better?
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garbage
If being better than the GS3 "blows" then okay.....
Not only is my cellular reception much better, my wifi reception is much better too. Good enough that in places that both didn't work before I now get at least usable 1x or one bar 3g/4g data.
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Every experience is different. I Have A DROID Bionic And I Use It For Work And I Constantly Notice The Bionic On 4G And The Note 3 On 3G. It's not all the time obviously but it's enough to be noticeable.
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Is MJE any better?
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Every experience is different. I Have A DROID Bionic And I Use It For Work And I Constantly Notice The Bionic On 4G And The Note 3 On 3G. It's not all the time obviously but it's enough to be noticeable.
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Well so far no improvement. I'm going to let it settle for a few days before I change it back.
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I dunno. This phone gets all around better reception than my GS3 did. On MJE here.
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OP, have you dropped your phone perhaps? I just read about the "LDS" technology they started using beginning with the Note 3 that integrates the antenna into the actual frame of the device. They say stress on the frame could cause the antenna itself inside to crack affecting signal.
http://www.gottabemobile.com/2013/12/05/galaxy-s5-may-borrow-note-3-tech-slim/
neyenlives said:
OP, have you dropped your phone perhaps? I just read about the "LDS" technology they started using beginning with the Note 3 that integrates the antenna into the actual frame of the device. They say stress on the frame could cause the antenna itself inside to crack affecting signal.
http://www.gottabemobile.com/2013/12/05/galaxy-s5-may-borrow-note-3-tech-slim/
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No I haven't dropped my phone. my phone is very well taken care of. After using the MI9 modem for a day I've had twice the battery life. At 14 hrs I had 51%battery with 5 hours of on screen time. Thanks for the feedback.
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I don't think people in here realize different manufacturers phones get different reception. HTC and Moto phones will ALWAYS get better signal. Its a fact of life. Just because your note 3 is newer doesn't mean anything.
And if your still thinking of switching to Dev Edition for better signal, your in for a surprise..... That phone has the same radio hardware in it that the Note 3 you currently have does. Wouldn't waste the "couple hundred bucks" looking there for better signal.
PS - my Note 3 gets phenomenal signal. Not as good as my HTC One did (obviously) but better than all the other flagship phones Verizon has had in the last 2 yrs.
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I don't think people in here realize different manufacturers phones get different reception. HTC and Moto phones will ALWAYS get better signal. Its a fact of life. Just because your note 3 is newer doesn't mean anything.
And if your still thinking of switching to Dev Edition for better signal, your in for a surprise..... That phone has the same radio hardware in it that the Note 3 you currently have does. Wouldn't waste the "couple hundred bucks" looking there for better signal.
PS - my Note 3 gets phenomenal signal. Not as good as my HTC One did (obviously) but better than all the other flagship phones Verizon has had in the last 2 yrs.
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You are correct sir I think I'm just doomed with the area I live in but MI9 modem did help my signal or mostly my battery life.
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Battery issues....

So I'll start off by saying my battery only lasts 8-10 hours from 100% to dead. So fair I have pinpointed the issue but I don't know how to fix it. I'm using an at&t d800
When my WiFi is on, no or unknown signal and no data connection start ticking and killing my battery. If I never turn my WiFi on my battery will last 19 hour or more.
Has anyone less encountered this issue and/or know how to fix this.
I have had this on bone stock 10o and on gravios rls 4.
Please I really would like to use my ac router and to get better battery life.
Thanks for your time.
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get betterbatterystats and look into wakelocks, check kernel, then partial and google the living daylight
turn wifi off when no signal, not that complicated really.
lobby with your provider for better coverage in your area.
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all of that dont work, then warrantee, or get an Iphone so you dont need to worry about silly wakelocks and unfriendly way of managing phone that Android requires
No odd wakelocks killing my battery. Sorry forgot to say my signal is 100%
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It's only when I have WiFi on that my phone thinks it has no signal even though it has 100%
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krypticos said:
No odd wakelocks killing my battery. Sorry forgot to say my signal is 100%
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of those ten hours how long is screen on?
1-2 hours and that's texting and web
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krypticos said:
1-2 hours and that's texting and web
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you seem to have faulty unit then, I would bring it back
Really that's all it could be dang I bought it off craigslist. Ok time to trade it off then.
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krypticos said:
Really that's all it could be dang I bought it off craigslist. Ok time to trade it off then.
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lol, just bring it back to a lg dealer
if that doesn't work, buy replacement battery, there are threads here how to open the phone.
or root it, twrp recovery it, wipe the bagesus ( not the sd card) out of it. so its clean. Then reinstall stock or good custom.
then condition battery, a couple times full charge down to zero and up again.
bachera said:
lol, just bring it back to a lg dealer
if that doesn't work, buy replacement battery, there are threads here how to open the phone.
or root it, twrp recovery it, wipe the bagesus ( not the sd card) out of it. so its clean. Then reinstall stock or good custom.
then condition battery, a couple times full charge down to zero and up again.
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LG Dealer? also its not the battery not holding a charge its if my wifi is on the battery drains like crazy because my phone thinks there is no siganl so its boosting the cellular radio. with out wifi on it doesnt do that so the battery lasts a long time.
well good news it is software related. i installed cm 11 and wifi on is not causing the no signal wake lock.
bachera said:
lol, just bring it back to a lg dealer
if that doesn't work, buy replacement battery, there are threads here how to open the phone.
or root it, twrp recovery it, wipe the bagesus ( not the sd card) out of it. so its clean. Then reinstall stock or good custom.
then condition battery, a couple times full charge down to zero and up again.
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Conditioning is only good for Ni-Mh battery's but bad for Li-Poly battery's. (which g2 uses) 0% and 100% are bad for them. The best is to charge them from about 10% to 95% if possible.
batteryuniversity.com/learn/article/how_to_prolong_lithium_based_batteries
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Sounds like that nasty stock gms wifi text service issue bs...
k3xx said:
Conditioning is only good for Ni-Mh battery's but bad for Li-Poly battery's. (which g2 uses) 0% and 100% are bad for them. The best is to charge them from about 10% to 95% if possible.
batteryuniversity.com/learn/article/how_to_prolong_lithium_based_batteries
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I dont understand why my battery if I charge it past 100% grants me an hour longer screen on time. I did notice a different span when using till 50 and then charging it again. Once I went from 100 to zero and back up it seemed it reset itself.
weird battery I guess.
Bad calibration is all. Its that magic 1% @100 and crap 5% bottom end. Noticeable across all devices. Evens itself out, never ends. Seems at 100% starting, its not really fully charged.
Steamer86 said:
Sounds like that nasty stock gms wifi text service issue bs...
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what is this? how do i fix it?
krypticos said:
what is this? how do i fix it?
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actually it doesnt cause all that does is lose network when network reception is low. It doesnt affect battery like your battery is affected.
try this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=48873307

Battery life since nc4

Guys is it just coniencedence. This doesn't seem right I showered this morning and got out and by then my phone went from 100 to 95... And I just charged it. Listened to 5 songs on Pandora and browsed for new batteries and this is where I'm at... Bad? Am I just using it more? Feels way worse
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kickenwing13 said:
Guys is it just coniencedence. This doesn't seem right I showered this morning and got out and by then my phone went from 100 to 95... And I just charged it. Listened to 5 songs on Pandora and browsed for new batteries and this is where I'm at... Bad? Am I just using it more? Feels way worse
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Everybody has the same problems with battery and radio on the NC4 Kitkat...
what i have done to minimize the battery usage is removed all the unnecessary apps by using Titanium Backup ( U need to have root access to use it)
Follow this thread to remove the bloatware & applications which u dont use: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2794481
Thank you dude, all I needed to hear was that I'm not alone. I'll check it out
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I wonder if going back to the MJE modem helps any?
I have before . I think my.broghtness is up too much .. Samsung asked me.too put it on safe mode for a few hours. Little drain .
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I got better 4G it seemed on mje. Just frustrating that over the last few months signal has gone from always having weak 4g at least to now not even getting it after toggling airplane
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kickenwing13 said:
I got better 4G it seemed on mje. Just frustrating that over the last few months signal has gone from always having weak 4g at least to now not even getting it after toggling airplane
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Many customers have raised complaints regarding signal issues to Verizon after updating to Kitkat and they got free phone replacements which solved their signal problems...
moin786 said:
Many customers have raised complaints regarding signal issues to Verizon after updating to Kitkat and they got free phone replacements which solved their signal problems...
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I am on my 1st replacement. I used to drop calls like CRAZY. replacement has been great for calls, just doesn't have as strong of data signal as I had in the past, even with different radios.. So the replacement solved my issue really just frustrated with dads "ONE' getting such a strong 4g signal while I go between 3 and 4g
Part of the reason I am hesitant to replace mine. It could get worse for me ?

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