Dear All!
It is possible that after dropping down my phone, the wifi signal reception is reduced?
For example: the wifi antenna - accidentally - able to move in the phone?
My device is Samsung Galaxy S4 Active.
xCSAbo
Sure its possilbe. Maybe a connector bent, or the antenna cracked or touches something it shouldnt. You`ll have to disassemble it and look for yourself.
Maybe that helps.
http://forums.androidcentral.com/verizon-samsung-galaxy-s4/425226-wifi-low-signal-issue.html
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Surprise me that I read nothing about the poor receiving quality of the Hermes when I one meter away from the router the signal drops down dramatically with 50% and after ten meters I read only 10% or something is there something to do about this? Maybe a bad antenna inside the Hermes or Faraday effect?
Any suggestion is welcome or am I the only one with this matter.
Heijdemann said:
Surprise me that I read nothing about the poor receiving quality of the Hermes when I one meter away from the router the signal drops down dramatically with 50% and after ten meters I read only 10% or something is there something to do about this? Maybe a bad antenna inside the Hermes or Faraday effect?
Any suggestion is welcome of am I the only one with this matter.
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I'm afraid the TyTn (Hermes) does not have a strong reception on wifi. Fine up to 10 metres and if not too much in the way upto 15 or so. Ok generally in and around normal house but if it's Buckingham Palace not too hot. Just the compromise we pay for having to pack in allthe other features I'm afraid.
Mike
I believe part of the problem is the antenna placement. While I don't know exactly where the antenna is located, I do know that when the device is held in your hand it has a considerable lower receive signal strength (as much as 10dB).
Give it a try. Set the device on the table and see what you measure. Then hold the device in your hand and see the difference.
Tim
tolson said:
I believe part of the problem is the antenna placement. While I don't know exactly where the antenna is located, I do know that when the device is held in your hand it has a considerable lower receive signal strength (as much as 10dB).
Give it a try. Set the device on the table and see what you measure. Then hold the device in your hand and see the difference.
Tim
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Your right. The antenna is along top edge. When in landscape your left hand tends to obscure it.
Mike
The WIFI reception on these devices is exteremly horrible. There must be a problem in the design, as it don't do more than 10 meters. We have a Andes in the house as well and it has no problems at all with wifi reception.
There must be a fix out there. I purchased this device specifically for the wifi .
have you noticed the connector for spar external place on the back of the TYTN? an is found rubberizes near the camera. I have attentively looked at the photos of the inside and I believe that this is related to the form radio and not to the wifi.
I would like so much to realize a connector wifi for external spar (you see PSP wifi connector) even replacing that connector radio with a wifi and connecting a cable on the chip wifi TNETW1250.
the welding of the cable should be made on the chip TNETW3422M.
Is there someone who has photo more detailed of those that are on the forum of xda?
Have y'all tried the Best Performance setting?
I have not used Wifi, nor will I ever (that is what 3G is for - since 3G is faster than my DSL connection...), but others have reported that changing to Best Performance helps...
I had three TyTN's and the last one had a horrible WiFi reception....10 meters at best. I had a Loox 720 (from a friend) for reference...with this PDA I could walk about 50 meters before reception became unusable. When it comes to WiFi reception this device has a major production tolerance. It makes me wonder if there is some kind of QC over there at HTC. My devices shouldn't have shipped in the first place.
b.t.w. I used all available settings and at in economy mode reception was even worse....signal meter at 30-40% only a few feet away from my wireless router (my reference Loox... 100%!!)
worst of all...instead of fixing it they just release a new device.
Ce said:
I had three TyTN's and the last one had a horrible WiFi reception....10 meters at best. I had a Loox 720 (from a friend) for reference...with this PDA I could walk about 50 meters before reception became unusable. When it comes to WiFi reception this device has a major production tolerance. It makes me wonder if there is some kind of QC over there at HTC. My devices shouldn't have shipped in the first place.
b.t.w. I used all available settings and at in economy mode reception was even worse....signal meter at 30-40% only a few feet away from my wireless router (my reference Loox... 100%!!)
worst of all...instead of fixing it they just release a new device.
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It's a curious thing - yes I get good reception up to 15 meters then drops off badly. BUT if I'm driving around with wifi on it detects an endless stream of home networks that in many cases must greatly exceed 10/15 meters.
Mike
jeffreycentex said:
Have y'all tried the Best Performance setting?
I have not used Wifi, nor will I ever (that is what 3G is for - since 3G is faster than my DSL connection...), but others have reported that changing to Best Performance helps...
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In my opinion I think you correct with this setting only the interval of the cheksum when connected and not the sensivity of wifi receiver.
Hi guys could somebody please tell me if the phone signal uses the same antennae as the gps as just got phone back from lcd repair and have very poor phone reception and can not pick up satellites on gps. Tried all different roms and radio's no go. So i am thinking i have a broken connection to the antennae, anyone who knows the inside of their phone could this be the case? thanks
It looks totally weird. I have been having issue with wifi for last few weeks. Tried almost everything. Changed ROMs (different stock versions and several customs). Did a sdcard install, task 29, tested at least 6 radios including the latest one but still no luck.
The wifi signal strength is erratic, most of the time it is very weak (I see low signal strength bar in the Signal strength (RSSI) tab in WLAN ). Has to be about 4 or 5 feet of the router to get connected. But sometime it is fine and can connect to the wifi with no problem (I see full strength bar in the Signal strength (RSSI) tab of WLAN). I checked this at home and at school (where there is a campus wide wifi network so I am in fact checking at different access point), but the wifi performance remain erratic. I even reformatted my sd card. Still no improvement.
I then took out the SD card and bingo the wifi signal jumped back to full strength. When I insert it back, sometime the signal strength remains intact but sometimes it falls and wifi is disconnected.
Basically, the siginal strength remains good and strong when SD card is not inserted and wifi connection is erratic and unpredictable with SD card in the phone.
I used another SD card (a 2GB), reformatted in the phone, but the erratic behavior returns, so it does not seem to be a SD card issue too.
I am completely baffled by the behavior of the phone. Has anybody experienced this or if you are having issue with wifi signal strength can you check if the wifi strength jumps back to normal when you dismount the sd card? It may be an erratic behavior of my unit but may be it could be a design flaw.
Please share your experience, since there seem to be a lot of folks with wifi strength issue, a complete cataloguing of the phone behavior will provide enough information to the smart people in this forum to help us.
thanks
Contact T-mo (or whatever provider you have) andtelll them you are having issues with your phone. Maybe try to get a replacement msd card too?
Almost seems like you have a motherboard problem. I'd bet its a bad connection/solder joint. The pressure when the card is inserted may loosen up things. It get relieved when the card is out. Just offering a suggestion - I get decent reception - not great but I can go all over the house and outside about 50 or more feet and the reception/speed is fine (card in or out).
I have a dLink DIR-655 (n band enabled) and I get about 1/2 signal strengh throughout the house (three floors) (wood/fibre cement construction). Only get max reception in the same room or near router.
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Almost seems like you have a motherboard problem. I'd bet its a bad connection/solder joint. The pressure when the card is inserted may loosen up things. It get relieved when the card is out. Just offering a suggestion - I get decent reception - not great but I can go all over the house and outside about 50 or more feet and the reception/speed is fine (card in or out).
I have a dLink DIR-655 (n band enabled) and I get about 1/2 signal strengh throughout the house (three floors) (wood/fibre cement construction). Only get max reception in the same room or near router.
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Thanks everybody for your input. It was connectors to the wifi antenna coming loose.
Finally solved it. Opened up the unit and seated all the cables properly. Also raised the copper spring connectors a bit so that when the phone back is snapped in place, the antenna and motherboard are properly connected.
HTC HD2 diassembly/assembly video is available at the following site:
http://pocketnow.com/hardware-1/official-htc-hd2-disassembly-assembly-training-videos-leaked
but be warned, your warranty will be void if you open your phone!
There is also another thread for this solution to the wifi problem.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=834199
Hey i was wondering if anyone around here was able to tell me where the wifi and the 2G antenna are located on the xperia play.
I believe that you can block these with your hand if you hold you phone in an particulair way, lowering signal strength (right?).
rveens said:
Hey i was wondering if anyone around here was able to tell me where the wifi and the 2G antenna are located on the xperia play.
I believe that you can block these with your hand if you hold you phone in an particulair way, lowering signal strength (right?).
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Basically if you cover the back of the device, it lowers your signal strength, so hold it by the edges if you need that extra oomph. I haven't been able to exactly track down that info myself, as I was trying to also find an aux/diversity jack for the antennas (so I could plug in an external).
I was wondering if anyone here is familiar with the Note 4 antenna hardware... Recently my Note 4 fails to connect to 3g / LTE networks though it connects and works absolutely fine with basic 2g networks. I ruled out everything I could software wise and also ruled out a sim card error leaving just a hardware fault to blame...
By chance this morning I just happened to be about 700m away from a cell phone mast so re-enabled 3g / LTE in network mode and to my amazement it connected to 4g and 3g with full signal strength and worked fine. Testing it again just 1.5km away resulted in the same issue... no 3g or LTE just 2g. This all leads me to believe that this is likely an antenna issue?
I replaced the motherboard in this phone (EMMC error) a long time ago and the charging / mic / button block at the same time as it could be a bit unreliable... the phone has been faultless since (until this much more recent issue with signal).
I know my way around the inside of the phone reasonably well but I can't seem to find out whether the antenna is purely made up of just the charging block, the blue & white wires connecting this block to the motherboard or a combination of both?... does anyone know the answer to this?
Both wire connectors and charging blocks are fairly easy and cheap to source and replace so doing both seems to be the route I'm heading down at the moment but I'm curious if it could possibly be only one part that is at fault (given that the antenna must be working to some extent to connect to 2g networks) ?
Anyone have any ideas?
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I was wondering if anyone here is familiar with the Note 4 antenna hardware... Recently my Note 4 fails to connect to 3g / LTE networks though it connects and works absolutely fine with basic 2g networks. I ruled out everything I could software wise and also ruled out a sim card error leaving just a hardware fault to blame...
By chance this morning I just happened to be about 700m away from a cell phone mast so re-enabled 3g / LTE in network mode and to my amazement it connected to 4g and 3g with full signal strength and worked fine. Testing it again just 1.5km away resulted in the same issue... no 3g or LTE just 2g. This all leads me to believe that this is likely an antenna issue?
I replaced the motherboard in this phone (EMMC error) a long time ago and the charging / mic / button block at the same time as it could be a bit unreliable... the phone has been faultless since (until this much more recent issue with signal).
I know my way around the inside of the phone reasonably well but I can't seem to find out whether the antenna is purely made up of just the charging block, the blue & white wires connecting this block to the motherboard or a combination of both?... does anyone know the answer to this?
Both wire connectors and charging blocks are fairly easy and cheap to source and replace so doing both seems to be the route I'm heading down at the moment but I'm curious if it could possibly be only one part that is at fault (given that the antenna must be working to some extent to connect to 2g networks) ?
Anyone have any ideas?
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Replace the blue and white antenna and it should be fixed
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Replace the blue and white antenna and it should be fixed
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Thanks for your reply the parts are in order but won't be here for a few more days yet... I'll let you know the outcome...
Just to conclude this thread I first replaced the antenna wires then later the antenna / charging port block neither solved the issue and so it would seem it's a fault with hardware on the motherboard. Probably an isolated case as I've yet to come across another mention of such an issue.
Paul410 said:
Just to conclude this thread I first replaced the antenna wires then later the antenna / charging port block neither solved the issue and so it would seem it's a fault with hardware on the motherboard. Probably an isolated case as I've yet to come across another mention of such an issue.
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I just started having this issue after the first of January. I was told it was because the 3G was disconnected by the cell provider and that the Note 4 defaults to the 3G antenna. So my question is if anyone knows if there are two antennas in the Note 4 and if one is specifically for 4G? Or if there is a software update that can resolve the issue?