Does anyone have a problem with their signal strength....mine will show 4g in an LTE area....it will switch back and forth from LTE to 4g constantly...sometimes the signal strength would be so low, that web pages wont even open for a min or two....I am using a sim adapter to use my sim card from my iphone 5, instead of using the new sim....I switch back and forth between my iphone and note, so I don't want to use another sim...does that cause problems?
Are you in Australia?
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My note 3's signal is stronger than original note.
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I was getting great 4G connection before this last update and now it's using the highest signal like 2g most of the time.
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Mine is rubbish
Well the actual signal strength is fine when its working, but it has real trouble re-connecting to my network (3, UK) after going out of range.
It sits on the 'emergency calls only' mode for ages, and requires a reboot, after which it immediately connects to my correct network.
Its made slightly better by manually selecting '3' as the network operator, but I have to reboot several times a day to keep connected.
Im planning on going to Car Phone Warehouse tomorrow for a chat about it...
George
ripnetuk: Just as a suggestion:
My NexusS tends to not to reestablish the data connection after a weak signal period. I can fix that by switching to airplane mode and back. (Rebooting takes ages with that phone).
Hi,
Id established that sometimes putting airplane mode on and off fixes it, but it often didnt. A reboot /always/ reconnected to the three network.
I took it back today, and Carphonewarehouse swapped it for a new unit, no questions asked, so im gonna give it a go for a while before thinking its fixed.
I did get my highest ever speed test result with the new phone tho - over 15 megs... ive never seen over 12 before, so hopefully its got a good antenna on it
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Swapped for another unit and it's all working properly now so it was a lemon device causing it..
Phew!
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I compared reception and signal between my Note 3 and HTC ONE in Hong Kong. I found that the HTC ONE and the older LTE Model of the Note 2 got better reception/signal when compared to my new Samsung Note 3
How long did you have your phone before you changed it for a new one?
I am having the same problem as well, also having camera troubles as well... Sounds like I have a lemon as well..
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about 15 days...
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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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nuclearmonkeyuk said:
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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Hi all, I am on 'ee' (UK) And am constantly having my signal drop and not recovering, doesn't seem to happen on my work phone (Xperia sp) just wondering if anyone else is having this same problem on the s4. There was mention of it on the UK s4 thread but for some reason that was closed (read the pinned topic still seems nonsensical) I am now downloading the latest btu update (luckilly linked in the above mentioned thread before it was closed!) Just wondering if you've had problems whether that fixed them ( started the download but torrent and extremely slow. Would love to hear your thoughts!!
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I live in Spain. My operator is Yoigo and i have the same problem. They said that is because they're changing to 4g network. I think the real problem it's the phone
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are you sure its the phone and not the network.
me and a lot off friends are having the same problem on EE
the phones are S3,S4,S4Active,Note 2 lte and iphones
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are you sure its the phone and not the network.
me and a lot off friends are having the same problem on EE
the phones are S3,S4,S4Active,Note 2 lte and iphones
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This is what I'm trying to ascertain.
My colleague had an i9305 (s3 LTE) and gets similar problems but my work phone (xperia sp - also a 4g compatible device) isn't affected. Thing is people can't get hold of me and is driving me crazy!!
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Been happening on my I9500 since day one, phone completely loses signal (like goes into airplane mode) and comes back a few seconds later.
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I am having the same issues on t-mobile in the uk, which is part of the EE group now. signal goes to crossed circle, emergency calls only, and i have to restart to regain signal, i am pretty sure its the handset as i also have a nokia 820 lumia with no issues .
To be honest its not a big issue happens once or twice a day, i just don't want to send the phone away have it flashed and be told thats fixed it...
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I had that before the 4.2.2 update but all is fine now.
Had the same problem a few days ago for the first and only time. The signal was gone and came back a couple of times. After I restared the phone, everything was working again. Didn't happen ever since. I noticed that the phone ran hotter than usual.
Do you have a self-made microsim or factory made? A poorly cut microsim can cause such problems. I replaced mine with a factory made microsim and these kind of problems went away.
Hi, factory sim, I have reseated it etc.
I'm thinking its a network rather than phone issue though. Like it doesn't reauthenticate after lost signal. Signal is poor at work but its not the only place it happens. I never had the same problems with my s3 making me wonder whether it is the LTE radio that causes the problem, too much of a coincidence that my colleague has the same issue with his i9305 (also LTE radio)
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I'm on ee and its been droping signal and its happening more often.
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signal droped on my S4 as well
Hello,
It happens to me twice: once per week - I'm brought it two weeks ago. First time I have simply reboot-ed to get the network back.
Second time I have put it in "Airplane mode" and back to normal operating status but doesn't recover it. I have only seen the operator logo about 1 sec and then "emergency calls only".
Reboot "solved" the issues instead. I have cleaned the SIM surface and reinserted few times and I have set up the network mode to "WCDMA/GSM (auto connect)". Under observation...
See this post as well:
check on forum vodafone co uk/t5/Samsung-Galaxy-S4/Galaxy-S4-Poor-Signal/td-p/1585008
Will be back here with feedback,
AG
Idk if this is something new but I just noticed it while I'm at my wife's house she lives in a 2g area I'm able to talk and surf at the same time is this something new with 4.3 or has this always been able to happen? Anybody have this happen I thought u had to be on at least 3g to do that
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I'd like to know that too. I have mine for 2 months now and I never had a good time on edge/2g. Lucky me that I live and work where 3g is ok, but sometimes the signal just disappears and I remember that my last phone (a Lumia 800) did work its 2g at those areas. Even at 3g if I turn "use 2g only" it never seems to work.
BTW, I'm still on stock 4.2.2 w/Franco.
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I'm stock 4.3
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If I'm reading this (wikipedia entry) correctly, then it sounds like older cell phones were Class B GPRS devices (as this was the network available at the time, and a cheaper option than Class A). I believe Class B means the device can be connected to GSM (voice/SMS) and GPRS(data) services at the same time, but can only use 1 at a time.
Today's devices such as the Nexus 4 are considered Class A devices, whereby they can be connected to GSM and GPRS services at the same time, and use both simultaneously. This is when they are in 2G mode; in 3G+ mode, the 3GPP specs support DTM (reference above).
Here's the GPRS Class details in case your more interested - link to wikipedia
I also made a post recently about the Nexus 4 reverting to the 2G radio pretty quickly when 3G signal was lost, and how the 0.84 radio that comes with stock 4.3 seems to be more robust.
Have a good one!
I'm on 4.2.2 still stock and unrooted. I just noticed the same thing about a day or two ago when my wife called me. I just happened to look at my phone, i think to look at the time or something, and i noticed it still had the data connected while on the call. I was on H connection though. I didn't try to see if i can surf the web or something, maybe next time.
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It's always been like that. You're just now noticing
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Anyone else having these issues? I've noticed that places I always had at least 1-2 bars with my note 2 I will not have any service with my note 3. Also I have been dropping calls in areas that I never did. Could this be my new sim card or should I exchange my phone? I also feel that my wifi connection stability/range is slightly worse than before.
Mine is the same way,don't get the signal my note 2 would and 4G is weaker also .
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Mine is the same way,don't get the signal my note 2 would and 4G is weaker also .
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I hope this is just a first software or sim issue. Or at the very worst a first production run issue. I will likely be bringing mine to Verizon this weekend to test and new sim or exchange if that doesn't make any difference. Annoying.
Idk how much it will help you but I noticed I was in 3G a lot of the time as well. Definitely more than my N2, I switched my preferred network to LTE/CDMA instead of Global and I now have 4GLTE way more. As far as the wifi and phone reception, I myself haven't noticed any huge difference but I did read the international version of the N3 already received 2 updates and they supposedly not only improved the wifi and antenna signals but also battery life. Who knows when we'll see an update though. We are on Verizon.
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Idk how much it will help you but I noticed I was in 3G a lot of the time as well. Definitely more than my N2, I switched my preferred network to LTE/CDMA instead of Global and I now have 4GLTE way more. As far as the wifi and phone reception, I myself haven't noticed any huge difference but I did read the international version of the N3 already received 2 updates and they supposedly not only improved the wifi and antenna signals but also battery life. Who knows when we'll see an update though. We are on Verizon.
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Tried that and it actually made my signal significantly worse. I switched back to global and my problem seems way worse tonight than any day this week. Can barely hold onto a signal in places that I never had an issue before. Battery pull didn't help at all. I constantly get a message that says I can't send messages and then asks me to retry. Frustrating, will be going to Verizon tomorrow or Friday to return/exchange
Just now noticing this
I wonder if this has anything to do with being rooted? it seems like I just started dropping calls like crazy just today. I do remember getting the sent error on some text messages, though I can't remember if that started befor or after rooting.
Haven't had a single issue with signal or dropping calls. Also my 4G speeds are pretty insane. I'm thinking there are some units with defective radios.
Hello guys,have had 3 different Z3 and noticed that the places that i had good signal with the Z3 was bad or none. Now i have moved to three UK and have a signal box at home and should always be in full and guess what!? Has 3 and a lot of times u look at it and none then u wait a few minutes and it gains again so think there is a issue with the phones when it comes to signal. What is your views on this regards
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I'd say you have a defective phone. My 6603 gets better signal than the iPhone 5s it replaced, which is impressive.
It's strange cos is 3 different ones
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Mine is on par with my mom's iPhone 6.
Mine is the same, if not better than my M8
Mine has 4g signal at the club i go, whereas before with my z2 and m8 it had 3g, and this is my 3rd z3 and they all had really good signal.
I'm having no problem with mine either.
So far, mine is the best reception (Wi-Fi and cellular) I have had in a phone.
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Hey OP, I have the same problem I think
I notice that sometimes I will be in an area and see the signal show up as 1 bar, and then it might shoot up to 3-4 all of a sudden. From what I've noticed, the internet still seems fast even when it's doing that. I'm using straight talk as my SIM. I wasn't sure if it was a problem with the phone, or the network. I'm not sure if I should return it. Did you also buy it from ebay from the seller that had it for 600?