Anyone ever have this issue? The minute I step into my house I start roaming and my text messages get delayed by a few hours. As soon as I walk outside everything is kosher. Frustrating!
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I personally believe this will be resolved in a radio update later on down the road . I to have noticed I can stand in my driveway and get almost full signal yet step into my house and drop to nearly 2 or 3 bars of signal strength . Even at work I step into my office and occassionally jump to roaming from time to time . The most recent PRL update (21080) had a somewhat good impact on my signal when it was released . Its probably best to wait for a radio update to come down the line , I suspect that will be soon .
Scratch this. Found the fix being an airave device.
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I personally believe this will be resolved in a radio update later on down the road . I to have noticed I can stand in my driveway and get almost full signal yet step into my house and drop to nearly 2 or 3 bars of signal strength . Even at work I step into my office and occassionally jump to roaming from time to time . The most recent PRL update (21080) had a somewhat good impact on my signal when it was released . Its probably best to wait for a radio update to come down the line , I suspect that will be soon .
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I really hope so. I live in the touristy part of orlando florida, and I spend more time roaming than anything.
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I know a co-worker of mine has this problem, however I get excellent reception even in the most remote areas. I only have bad reception in my break room at work (go figure).
Anyway, I heard by reading these forums that if you call Sprint and complain to them about the roaming problem they will give you a free Airave which should help with your problem.
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I know a co-worker of mine has this problem, however I get excellent reception even in the most remote areas. I only have bad reception in my break room at work (go figure).
Anyway, I heard by reading these forums that if you call Sprint and complain to them about the roaming problem they will give you a free Airave which should help with your problem.
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Yeah just saw that. Appreciate the help. Only been with sprint going on three weeks now.
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Airave aside, the loss of signal is likely caused by the material your house is built with. Stuco houses have chicken wire wrapped around them, which acts like a faraday cage. The same is true with houses built with metal studs, metal siding, metal roofs, etc. Masonry (brick, stone, cinder block) also decreases the signal drastically. Concrete homes (like ICF) amplify the issue with both the concrete blocking signal and the rebar acting as a faraday.
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Airave aside, the loss of signal is likely caused by the material your house is built with. Stuco houses have chicken wire wrapped around them, which acts like a faraday cage. The same is true with houses built with metal studs, metal siding, metal roofs, etc. Masonry (brick, stone, cinder block) also decreases the signal drastically. Concrete homes (like ICF) amplify the issue with both the concrete blocking signal and the rebar acting as a faraday.
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Good to know. It is a stucco house.
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PRL 00001 will help you also...
yep, 00001 prl has solved my 3g signal issues........before my signal in the house was 10%, not it's 60% according to Elixir app......and 5 bars.
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So radios, despite common belief, does not improve signal strength (hardly at all). I don't want to buy the new Verizon signal booster for a big $250, and I'm not gunna sauder together coffee cans and antenna adapters yada yada. Is there any ways (besides those ^ and *22899 or *228) to boost service. I'm curious if anyone here has any techniques or know how on this. Thanks in advance, everyone here has been a great help so far
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Don't know much about it, but I sometimes get better service when my internet is off. Also, strangely I get terrible service in my house (1 bar currently) when I'm sitting right next to a window, and I get great service at school (3+ bars) in rooms with no windows. Its all just hit and miss for me.
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I think I remember reading that people in some areas were receiving better coverage by adding APNs for Alltel towers. I guess they are now part of the Verizon network now, but the stock APNs do not use them.
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I think I remember reading that people in some areas were receiving better coverage by adding APNs for Alltel towers. I guess they are now part of the Verizon network now, but the stock APNs do not use them.
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How could one do this?
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Don't know much about it, but I sometimes get better service when my internet is off. Also, strangely I get terrible service in my house (1 bar currently) when I'm sitting right next to a window, and I get great service at school (3+ bars) in rooms with no windows. Its all just hit and miss for me.
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Truly is hit or miss. 1 bar at my house, go to another state and have 4, drive around have 3-4. I live in New London county, CT, and don't understand how I cant have good service living so close to two cities lol. I know there's plenty of towers down here
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Nvm lol. Did a simple search and found it. Unfortunately, the only Alltel towers in CT (suprised there are any haha) are 3 counties north west so no help with service there. Thank you tho.
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So what's the truth behind the signal. Is it as bad as the reviews?
Evo
0 problems with my signal .. i compared my 4g to 3d and they both had the same reception here @ work.
I think It's fine....and I get bad signal in my house.
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3 bars at home, 3g/4g seems a little funky.
I'm interested in the Evo 4G/3D comparison too as I have an Evo 4G now and am thinking about the 3D. I live in a fringe area with 0-1 bars though (but I can still hold a call). Need to know how the 3D compares for cell call and also 3G signal retention compared to the old Evo. So please keep the replies coming!
Mike
Zero issues, signal is actually better than my Epic here.
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I'm interested in the Evo 4G/3D comparison too as I have an Evo 4G now and am thinking about the 3D. I live in a fringe area with 0-1 bars though (but I can still hold a call). Need to know how the 3D compares for cell call and also 3G signal retention compared to the old Evo. So please keep the replies coming!
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I talked to a sprint rep yesterday and because my signal at my house is bad they are sending me what's called a airave. They say its like having a cell tower in your house . It's suppose to boost your signal . It's complety free for two years , and if you don't like it you can send it back , no contract .
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Live where I get no signal and its doing great at least as well as its older bro
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I talked to a sprint rep yesterday and because my signal at my house is bad they are sending me what's called a airave. They say its like having a cell tower in your house . It's suppose to boost your signal . It's complety free for two years , and if you don't like it you can send it back , no contract .
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I think I may contact sprint about that.. my reception has always been poor here. Then again if you ain't Verizon your f*** around here
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signal for me seems the same as all phones I have had, two bars and in the right spot three. I would say call quality is fine as well, I dont know what the reviewers thought was going to happen, a 3D phone call? lol
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signal for me seems the same as all phones I have had, two bars and in the right spot three. I would say call quality is fine as well, I dont know what the reviewers thought was going to happen, a 3D phone call? lol
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yeah.. when i made my first call..everything i read about it came to mind and when i heard my gf spoke.. i was like wtf really? you call that bad? in my personal experience, I call that an improvement.
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yeah.. when i made my first call..everything i read about it came to mind and when i heard my gf spoke.. i was like wtf really? you call that bad? in my personal experience, I call that an improvement.
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agreed, a friend of mine has the iphone from verizon, not sure what it is but he sounds like **** over the phone! its hard to explain, i guess he sounds over-modulated. anyway i called him this morning to see if he had a drv receiver (work for directv), to my surprise his voice sounded so much better than on the 4G. i was stunned for a second, only thing i could say is "what", not because i didnt hear him. but because i was shocked
The call signal is the same side by side with my Evo4g but the wifi signal seems to be stronger. On the top floor of my home I get 4-5 bars and the evo only got about 2. No issues here so far.
I have close to perfect signal at my house and I literally just watched my 3G shut off and now my EVO 3D says i have no voice signal either...wtf...tried updating the profile but doesnt seem to help. If I continue to have problems I guess I will have to swap for a new one.
I'm in Sprint's home state, and although they don't list my town as having 4G coverage they are testing it here and sure enough 4G found a signal to connect with. 0 bars, but the web browser worked fine and so did my email client. 3G is a much stronger signal but didn't seem to be any better of a connection than I had when 4G was active and 3G was off. Phone signal wavers from 3 to 4 bars, and so far I haven't dropped a call.
I could be wrong, I don't know a ton about the data packet construction for cdma, but the way I understand it is... For cdma the number of bars is somewhat irrelevant when compared to the way a gsm network works. For cdma, its either connected or its not. For gsm, as signal strength drops calls get fuzzy and choppy, for cdma it will likely remain clear up until it is gone completely. So far the signal on my 3vo has been perfect. No complaints. If yours is dropping or having problems it may be a product defect.
Again, I may be wrong on my understanding if the technology, but for my experience it has held true.
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I talked to a sprint rep yesterday and because my signal at my house is bad they are sending me what's called a airave. They say its like having a cell tower in your house . It's suppose to boost your signal . It's complety free for two years , and if you don't like it you can send it back , no contract .
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your getting screwed. i have had it for 4 yrs. old model then new. never paid a penny for it. it is free service. even shows as 0 on my sprint.com account.
Mine's better than my 4G ...no doubt, mainly via faster ping time. 4g'd get hung up there. 3d quick there.
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So what's the truth behind the signal. Is it as bad as the reviews?
Evo
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For me the EVO 3d has been great "CLEARLY" better signal reception than my old EVO 4G, I think alot of those so-so negative were smoking wanky weed....I'm glad that I ignored them the EVO 3d rocks
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So what's the truth behind the signal. Is it as bad as the reviews?
Evo
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I'm having buyers remorse with this phone, I used to be able to talk on my EVO 4G in my house with no issues at all, but with this Evo 3D I can not hold a conversation in the house without dropping the call, even outside my house I'm having problems. I love the idea of dual cores and 3D but I also need to be able to use it at home, hopefully a radio update will fix this soon.
I'm risking starting up another signal strength thread, but I figured this info was useful for anyone looking to return their Evo 3D or any other phone in Massachusetts.
I finally decided I had better try swapping out my Evo 3D at Best Buy in case there was something wrong with the radio. Reception in Eastern Massachusetts has been horrible with it. Far worse than my Moment or my wife's Epic.
When I tried to swap the phone out, they told me I owed $22 in taxes. Turns out that July 1st, Massachusetts taxes you on the full $699 and not the price you pay. So if you bought on the 24th and replace in store after July 1st, there is nothing Best Buy can do to avoid the tax.
I decided to switch back to the original phone because after loading a signal dbm widget onto both phones and the reps' personal evo 3d, they all had similarly crappy signals.
A few questions though:
1) It doesn't seem like signal is always bad. Just much more prone to dropping out. Anyone else experienced this?
2) Is it possible that the case is killing the signal? I have the platinum series case from best buy which looks slick but if it's killing the signal I'll get rid of it.
3) I noticed that bluetooth seems to have a significant negative effect on the dbm of the phone signal. Is this normal for a phone, bad design, bad luck or chance?
4) I struggle to get 4G to stay connected in Boston. It loses the connection then goes into 4G! mode and refuses to connect for more than a few seconds. Is this normal?
5) To what extent can HTC improve signal performance by software updates? Samsung was able to do this for the Moment, but they were starting with a lemon of a phone to begin with...
Anyway, bad signal or not, if you are messing around with phones in Massachusetts, be sure to sneak over the border to New Hampshire before returning it or you'll piss away $20+.
I'm having signal issues too gets really annoying esp with 4g hope its just a bug that can be fixed
I am in the worcester area and my signal is terrible everywhere I go. With my 4g it was fine, 3d absolutely sucks. I am on my second phone now and both have been horrible. I have been in the city where I used to have great signal but get nothing now. I also had no signal on the mass pike in auburn and was roaming.
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I noticed today, after changing the roaming mode from automatic to sprint only, that I was dropping in and out of service every few minutes. This had never happened previously as I always have a consistent signal in this area both with the Evo3D as well as the Evo4G. I am hoping a radio update will fix this...
I'll try it this week when I am in New York City and see if it improves. Maybe it just isn't using all the towers in this area or something.
I had the same exact problem with mine but then i loaded a custom prl (00001) and now it's rock solid signal and i haven't roamed yet. Highly recommend by me.
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Hope & change at work!
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Hope & change at work!
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The economy may be in the crapper but the .gov has to get it's chips.
I'm in the Lawrence/lowell area, reception isn't that bad. Thanx for the heads up in that tax law, didn't know about that. ****ed up is what it is.
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I had the same exact problem with mine but then i loaded a custom prl (00001) and now it's rock solid signal and i haven't roamed yet. Highly recommend by me.
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OMG, with that prl you are roaming all the time.
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Well i have really good signal strength in s.fla...i will see wen i visit my fam around Boston to see...but ive always had good reception so maybe its just your area
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Of course MA lawmakers passed the revised taxes bill. They had to find a way to hike their pay and they figured some weird tax would fill the void.
Yeah, I live in Beverly, Ma and my 3g has been total $hit lately.... +/- 1/2 meg down..... I usually leave it on WiFi @ home....
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Even with full bars my signal would cut out and roam come back and do it again
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OMG, with that prl you are roaming all the time.
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My phone doesn't show roaming and it still locks onto my airave... I'll check my sprint.com acct to be sure though.
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I get pretty good service its just happens that everytime I hold my phone in landscape mode the signal drops. When I go back to portrait I get full bars. Anybody else experiencing this
My ''xDU4L C0R3 SH00T3Rx'' shot you down in 3D!
I live Cape Cod, and drive all over MA and RI, and my signal and 3G is horrible. I exchanged mine for a new one and no change in service. My old Evo 4G got 120 to 140 kbs and this one gets 22 to 70, occasionally 94... Something is wrong with the phone, not the service... I may just buy another Evo 4G from eBay since I gave mine to my nephew, and keep this phone until they find a fix...
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Framingham
I'm in Framingham right now, getting 2 bars on the 4g meter. Speedtest shows 7617 down and 1435 up.
3G sucks for me too. It's not quite 'deal breaker' material, but combined with some other pet peeves of mine I'm leaning towards bringing it back and waiting for the SGS2....cuz if I'm going to have a **** radio I might as well have an unlocked bootloader and CM8 guaranteed.
Well here in Wisconsin I've been getting pretty consistent signals and 3g. But about 2 hours ago everything failed. Haven't had 3g since and I either have 0 bars or I'm roaming, usually with still only a bar or two. Can somebody think of a cause for this because I'm out of ideas.
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I've noticed my wifi reception dropping greatly as well as my cellular signal strength. I reflashed different modems and even went back to my regular one. Many times it wouldn't even regain the cellular signal at all. When I choose to search for network, it gives me an error.
As for wifi, I normally get almost full signal in all rooms of my house. Now I find I barely get reception and it completely drops at times.
I'm on Flapjaxxx's Cm9 rom if that means anything.
SOLVED: wifi antenna making poor contact internally. Adjusted spring contacts inside. All is well.
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I've noticed my wifi reception dropping greatly as well as my cellular signal strength. I reflashed different modems and even went back to my regular one. Many times it wouldn't even regain the cellular signal at all. When I choose to search for network, it gives me an error.
As for wifi, I normally get almost full signal in all rooms of my house. Now I find I barely get reception and it completely drops at times.
I'm on Flapjaxxx's Cm9 rom if that means anything.
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Flash a new modem that will boost signal in the carbon installer app
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Sorry, what's carbon installer?
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so no one else has this issue?
I walk 5 feet from my router and the signal drops to 1 bar.
I have this same issues ever since moving to CM9. My 5GHz N network is unusable. I'm five feet from the router with direct line of site and it's seeing about 2 bars (fair) and -70db. Moving 10 feet away moves it down to -80 or -90 and 19Mbps before it ultimately disconnects. I've tried reverting back to modems that I was successfully using on stock ICS, including UCLC5, UCLF6, and UCLE2, but none of them have made a bit of difference. Is there some other component aside from the modem that governs wifi?
My laptop and HTPC which uses a USB WIFI adapter and is about 20 feet away from the router have no issues getting 5 bars, and inSSIDr shows that I'm the only 5GHz AP in the area.
Anyone have any ideas?
Antenna issue? Perhaps an unlucky drop caused the antenna to become unseated?
It is possible to open the phone and push in the antenna.
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Antenna issue? Perhaps an unlucky drop caused the antenna to become unseated?
It is possible to open the phone and push in the antenna.
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Agreed.....
We've seen at least two other users this week with a loose antenna seat, that required a repair to correct the lost signal issue..
this may not be the problem, but certainly something to consider....g
I neglected to mention that my 2.4GHz signal works great, 4 or 5 bars throughout the apartment. I'll take a look at the antenna. I don't supposed there's a less warranty-voiding way of doing it than pulling up the sticker?
I'm seeing the exact same thing. as soon as I rooted and flashed a custom rom my 5GHz has dropped to virtually nothing. my cell strength and 2.4GHz are weaker than they once were but 2.4GHz and cell is still very usable. my 2.4GHz drops to 19mbps constantly. I've bounced my phone back to completely stock ICS and that resolved the issue, though stock rom just isn't fast enough for me anymore so I'm back on Paranoid Android CM10 Aug27 release 1.992
A couple of other things, I use AT&T, my router is an ASUS RT-56U dual band wireless N, I live in an apartment complex where 2.4GHz is saturated, but 5GHz is clear and I live roughly 1 mile from the closest cell tower. I run my laptops in 5GHz and my streaming media in 2.4GHz. So for all intents and purposes my 5GHz should be much stronger.
Any thoughts on why the custom Rom is doing this?
If I have time today or tomorrow I'll do a backup and try out a stock ROM to see if the problem goes away.
Yes...It sounds rom related at this point...
A stock rom test, "With" a stock modem would be a good test....g
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If I have time today or tomorrow I'll do a backup and try out a stock ROM to see if the problem goes away.
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Update. Rolled back to OEM ICS 4.0.4 and my wifi reception is MUCH stronger. Guess I'll be staying with ICS.
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Update. Rolled back to OEM ICS 4.0.4 and my wifi reception is MUCH stronger. Guess I'll be staying with ICS.
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It seems I was wrong. I took my phone apart and checked out where the WiFi antenna contacts were. One of the springs was flat and barely making contact. I pried it up slightly and things seem better. I will update again if I am full of fail.
Just a tidbit:
On every one of my devices, with CM9/10 loaded, my 5Ghz signal strength is weak...
Sitting on stock, and my signal is fine for 5Ghz WiFi...
I said it back when CM9 was starting to become regular, it still hasnt changed...
Something changed in CM when CM9 and now CM10 came to be that 5Ghz WiFi now sucks very much badly!
The ONLY time I get full strength with 5Ghz is when my phone is sitting on my router, I sit maybe 3-4ft away (no walls, level, in-sight range), and it drops a bar sometimes two...
This happens on all my devices with 5Ghz WiFi and CM9/10, my HD2 (for example) on CM7.2 has matching 5Ghz performance with 2.4Ghz, but on CM9 its the craps :<
Update: yup. It worked. Full bars on WiFi in my house again. Even in areas where I had zero reception. Possibly a small drop caused the spring contact to be compressed.
Currently running. Flapjaxxx AOSPxXx ROM from Oct 23.
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Update: yup. It worked. Full bars on WiFi in my house again. Even in areas where I had zero reception. Possibly a small drop caused the spring contact to be compressed.
Currently running. Flapjaxxx AOSPxXx ROM from Oct 23.
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You didn't by chance get any pictures did you?
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Unfortunately no. But its fairly easy to see where the WiFi contacts are when you open the case. When you pull the battery cover off, there is a pad/ sticker on the upper left. That's the antenna, right next to the power button and SIM tray.
NOTE: DO NOT PEEL ANY STICKERS/PADS OFF
If you take the phone apart, the contact pads are right under it.
When the housing/is separated from the screen (snaps off) you can see two gold springy contacts that look like the ones in the SIM tray. Like this > . If its flat like this _ just pry it back open GENTLY. Only like 1mm.
Then reassemble phone and test in a recently known bad WiFi area.
Mine is finally awesome again.
AWS cellular reception is still mediocre since day one tho.
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Antenna issue? Perhaps an unlucky drop caused the antenna to become unseated?
It is possible to open the phone and push in the antenna.
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I quote myself.
Wasn't desperate enough to crack open the phone just yet, but thanks Rangercaptain, you were right in the money
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Going out of the comfort zone usually has its rewards. Good job!
Just curious how reception is for others. As you can see in the pic, I'm in a good area, but it drops constantly. It will show, 6 bars, then drop to none, then 2, then none, then 6 and so on. Even sitting next to my airwaves it does this. A friend of mine has the same issues on his s3. Either we have 2 defective phones or sprint sucks. This phone is great but not sure what's up with my reception. It goes into roaming in town near my sprint store.
I'm on sprint running a un-rooted stock rom.
Note this is at the same location for this pic and notice how it goes from green to brown to none. Fluctuates way to much for me being at work in the same spot
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Does call quality or data speed drop too? I read somewhere that the S3 bar indicator scales differently and can not be compared side by side with a different model phone.
Yes really hope you do not have a defective phone and maybe this is a T-Mobile issue.. I live in a very rural area and my Verizon tower is 20 miles away, let's hope this is not the tip of the iceberg on reception for the G3.
So no one has bad reception with this phone? Guess I'll be getting rid of this phone
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So no one has bad reception with this phone? Guess I'll be getting rid of this phone
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Is it dropping calls, or data, or are you just overreacting to a few miscolored bars? I mean, certain spots are going to go into roaming; Sprint isn't everywhere. Does another phone go into roaming at the same spot?
Mine seems to lose signal pretty often. It'll go from full strength or a few bars to the no signal circle with a line through it. Haven't been able to pinpoint why yet.
I will say this signal is not as strong as my iPhone 4s (ATT). I was downtown last night in a Bar. I normally text while I am in there, I could not text last night on my SIII, I get no signal inside. On my iPhone i always could text. Sucks when I'm trying to have girls meet me...
That looks like every Sprint phone I've ever had, to be honest. Mine always do that and I have no idea why. lol
It will roam at the sprint store. Sprint reps can't explain it and I get the "we have never seen this issue before" speech. But I'm going to swap it out. The screen is yellow anyways.
I also roam at home with an airwave. Never had that issue with my evo 3d or photon.
The antenna on this phone can't be that bad can they? I know Sammy has a reputation for horrible reception.
And it does drop calls and texts will have to be resent
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I manage to roam at least 5 times a day. On my moment (SPH M900) Ive barely ever roamed. Also texts seem to fail at sending quite a bit.
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Just curious how reception is for others. As you can see in the pic, I'm in a good area, but it drops constantly. It will show, 6 bars, then drop to none, then 2, then none, then 6 and so on. Even sitting next to my airwaves it does this. A friend of mine has the same issues on his s3. Either we have 2 defective phones or sprint sucks. This phone is great but not sure what's up with my reception. It goes into roaming in town near my sprint store.
I'm on sprint running a un-rooted stock rom.
Note this is at the same location for this pic and notice how it goes from green to brown to none. Fluctuates way to much for me being at work in the same spot
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Sprint sucks ....
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My ATT S3 connects just fine! Some buildings it doesn't like but thats pretty normal. Over all its MUCH better than my old Sprint service. 5-7meg down with HSPA+!
Just got my phone today (att) and signal levels seem low when I look a the status bar. for both wifi and 4g. How do you display that screen from OP? I can't seem to find it.
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Just got my phone today (att) and signal levels seem low when I look a the status bar. for both wifi and 4g. How do you display that screen from OP? I can't seem to find it.
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mine is also horrible , just wait for sprints 4g lte
Same thing happens for me, the phone will drop the signal even when I'm on WiFi, never had this problem with the lte.
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with Time on of 8h 37m 26s, time without signal is 26%
Mine is about 3-4 dbm lower than my Thunderbolt I have for work, but it displays 1 or 2 less "bars".
Sprint no-charge roaming
This won't fix your connectivity issues, but
In conversation with a Corporate Sprint Rep today, billing dept, I was informed that Sprint doesn't charge for roaming
in the domestic US. I didn't know this.
If phone goes into roaming, perhaps this lightens the impact?
I think this may have something to do with the antenna being on the bottom of the phone where your palm rests. Atleast thats how it is on my Tmo. If I hold the phone just on the top half or not holding it at all then I get more bars and more consistent. Soon as I hold it in particular with my left hand is when I lose signal bars. This only happens in an area where I'm only getting 2 bars.
I also had a sprint s3 (not active now) but never really checked the signal bar since I never lost connection.