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Using a Verizon / HTC Thunderbolt, final retail model.
Not even tethering, just holding the phone in my hand, I'm getting 4 bars of signal and a signal strength of -77 dBm.
Seems to work fine most of the time, with good downstream, well within acceptable limits of the "5 to 12 Mbps" advertised, though it's extremely variable (it tends to regularly oscillate between these speeds, occasionally dropping down to EvDO speeds).
But the speeds aren't important, just an indication of the good signal strength.
Maybe it's just my cell tower, but I am very frequently seeing no network activity at all; can't even get to google or check for software updates. It's about as unreliable as Verizon's crap DSL. This is the polar opposite of the rock-solid stability I used to get with EvDO in the exact same place (in my house). Is it the 4G network being unreliable, or the Thunderbolt? Anyone else have this problem?
Edit: In terms of the patterns of the total downtime, it seems to go down for periods of 5 to 10 minutes per hour. Sometimes the downtime only lasts 15 or 30 seconds, other times I am completely out for 10 minutes, even though it says "4G LTE" in the dock and I am still getting good signal strength. My data usage for the month is under 5GB but above 2GB. I tend not to make very bursty traffic; except for app downloads, most of my traffic is of the low throughput, consistent variety (loading webpages, listening to MP3 streams at 128Kbps, etc). I use it very often but the bandwidth usage at any given time is probably lower than the speed of an EvDO connection (unless you count webpages that are downloaded at faster-than-EvDO speeds for a split-second to load them). I'll be using it and then it's just *down*. I can still make phone calls during the outage.
I noticed the same thing. I was all over the place cycling through no data, 1x, 3G, and 4G in like a minute in the same spot. I rebooted and got a much more stable 4G connection.
I'm thinking your expectations are a little too much. There are many areas I don't get a good 3g, let alone a 4g signal. I live in a suburb of Chicago and am in 4g 95% of the time, I don't always pay attention, because, after all, it's a phone first, but 4g seems to be there whenever I need it.
Also, in regards to unacceptable, what are you comparing it to? Is there more acceptable 4g signals in your area?
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I'm thinking your expectations are a little too much. There are many areas I don't get a good 3g, let alone a 4g signal. I live in a suburb of Chicago and am in 4g 95% of the time, I don't always pay attention, because, after all, it's a phone first, but 4g seems to be there whenever I need it.
Also, in regards to unacceptable, what are you comparing it to? Is there more acceptable 4g signals in your area?
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I'm comparing it to Verizon EvDO / 3G. While speeds on EvDO were only about 20-25% of the max speed of LTE / 4G, it was completely reliable -- at least in my area.
Keeping the phone almost completely stationary sitting at my desk, connected to the same cell tower, and with my roaming data programmed to the latest version, my EvDO phone (a Droid 2) would have the connection available whenever I asked for it.
With the same exact usage pattern but with LTE, my Thunderbolt often has no connection, and it spontaneously comes back by simply waiting around for it to become available.
I expect the 4G channel to be "open" 24/7/365, not ever completely down -- especially while stationary in a standard building with a very high signal strength (always 4 bars). I have no unusual EMF like microwaves or bluetooth going on, just a laptop and a desktop and 2 LCDs. Wooden house, and I'm on the top floor.
If they can make EvDO stable 24/7, and EvDO is based on the same CDMA technology as LTE, why can't they make LTE stable 24/7 also? And I also don't understand why my phone does not fall back to EvDO if and when the LTE drops out. I recall a few times over the years of using it that my EvDO would fall back to 1x/RTT in the event of an EvDO downtime. But the MTBF of EvDO downtimes in my area was around 1 year. Now, the MTBF of LTE is about 50 to 120 minutes.
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I noticed the same thing. I was all over the place cycling through no data, 1x, 3G, and 4G in like a minute in the same spot. I rebooted and got a much more stable 4G connection.
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I rebooted my phone and am getting a more stable 4G connection now, too I wonder if the phone itself has a stability problem with its 4G transceiver after a certain period of uptime? I will test this theory over the next couple days by rebooting my phone whenever I have a problem, and see if it helps.
Edit: I usually keep my phone "up" 24/7, and just leave it on the charger when I'm not on the go. I power it off only rarely, because I want to receive phone calls and text messages. When I just rebooted it, it had 2.5 days of uptime (hard to have too much uptime considering launch day was just a few days ago!)
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I live in a suburb of Chicago and am in 4g 95% of the time...
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Out of curiosity, what suburb are you in that you're getting 4G 95% of the time? I live in Highland Park (about 20 miles up the north shore) and I don't have nearly as good of coverage (still decent though and I'm not complaining).
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I'm guessing it has to be your area. I am getting amazing 4G coverage in LA. I going to assume its going to take VZW some time before their 4G coverage truly blankets areas. I remember when 3G came out.. it was totally spotty for a long time until they had enough towers.
Kind of like what I recorded on my phone this afternoon....?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRTOCFoGFmU
5 min clip showing me cycling through web and map but getting no data, despite cycling airplane mode on and off. This has happened almost daily since getting the phone last Thursday, in multiple locations that are supposedly full 4G areas. Pretty annoying.
Double annoying since I got the Verizon phone because they're network's so much better (allegedly)...and yet my Nexus S on T-Mobile had full bars and fast "4G" data in the same location. I'd also had a reboot, and the 1tx symbols flashing but wasn't recording at the time. I'd been screwing around with this for at least 10 minutes before activating ShootMe to record it.
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Out of curiosity, what suburb are you in that you're getting 4G 95% of the time? I live in Highland Park (about 20 miles up the north shore) and I don't have nearly as good of coverage (still decent though and I'm not complaining).
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Well im in Gurnee area with 4g 99% of the time. Only time without is in my GF's brothers house. no 3g there either though lol. otherwise i never loose 4g. Even driving to vernon hills and around i always have 4g. not sure y in HP u dont always have it.
i am complete opposite i have 2-1 bars inside a building getting 12mbps
I notice it has an issue where it just randomly drops all my signals to search for 4g even though its not in my area... I think the only way to get reliable signal would be to set the radio to whatever you are using mostly... *#*#4636#*#* will get you into diagnostics and select phone infotmation and then choose CDMA auto for 3g or lte mode..... I'm thinking in the near future there will be a update that allows for easier lte turn off like 4g on the evo... the automatic thing is nice but it wastes battery and seems to cause some problem
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Well im in Gurnee area with 4g 99% of the time. Only time without is in my GF's brothers house. no 3g there either though lol. otherwise i never loose 4g. Even driving to vernon hills and around i always have 4g. not sure y in HP u dont always have it.
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Hm. Not sure either, Gurnee/Vernon Hills is pretty close, maybe I just need more testing time (I'm also indoors most of the time).
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Hm. Not sure either, Gurnee/Vernon Hills is pretty close, maybe I just need more testing time (I'm also indoors most of the time).
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i mean i never saw 4 bars on 4g but 2-3 always and hit 30 on the down and 50 on the up while in the antioch walmart lol but never with out 4g expect in that one house lol.
I just set mine to LTE only let's see if its more stable than the auto mode
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I just set mine to LTE only let's see if its more stable than the auto mode
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let me know, i should try that too. never thought of that when looking at it. wonder if ill save a bit of battery not trying to also find 3g, im sure i lose very lil hunting for 3g but still. saving some battery may give me another in on 4g lol
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i mean i never saw 4 bars on 4g but 2-3 always and hit 30 on the down and 50 on the up while in the antioch walmart lol but never with out 4g expect in that one house lol.
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You realize that the phone is incapable of 50 up, don't you? Those kinds of speeds are a known bug in the Speedtest.net and other similar speed tests that don't deal with the Thunderbolt's large transmit buffer properly.
Anyone else seeing any errors in the logcat that look similar to this?
D/DATA ( 1779):[QCTMM] DataNetStatistics sent == 0 && received == 0 newActivity=NONE
D/DATA ( 1779): sentSinceLastRecv=0,watchdogTrigger=10,maxindex=0
E/TrafficStats( 1555): [QCTMM]tryAll index =1
E/TrafficStats( 1555): [QCTMM]tryAll index =2
There is an entry like this every few seconds when I'm on mobile data.
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Well im in Gurnee area with 4g 99% of the time. Only time without is in my GF's brothers house. no 3g there either though lol. otherwise i never loose 4g. Even driving to vernon hills and around i always have 4g. not sure y in HP u dont always have it.
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verizon towers fallowing u now? from 95% now 99% lol ...that 1% its your gfs house damn it.... probably a bridge on the way and tower to tall to go under ...****...otherwise u would it have 100% wooohoooo
I'm at my desk at work in times square, nyc. Yesterday I had 1-2 bars of 4g at my desk. Today, my phone has yet to switch out of 1x mode my entire 2 hour commute here and so far today. I tried rebooting and can't get 3g or 4g to come on. I'm pretty annoyed
I just got my phone yesterday and noticed it today at work. With my og EVO I would consistantly get 3 bars at work and with the EVO 4g LTE I am getting 0-1 bar and roaming a lot which is killing my battery as well. Is the antenna is this EVO not as strong as the og EVO? This is a pretty big problem because I use my phone all the time at work. Iv tried updating my profile and prl and have done a couple resets. I don't want to return this phone but I may have to
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I just got my phone yesterday and noticed it today at work. With my og EVO I would consistantly get 3 bars at work and with the EVO 4g LTE I am getting 0-1 bar and roaming a lot which is killing my battery as well. Is the antenna is this EVO not as strong as the og EVO? This is a pretty big problem because I use my phone all the time at work. Iv tried updating my profile and prl and have done a couple resets. I don't want to return this phone but I may have to
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No idea how it compares to og Evo, I have since had 2 other phones plus this one.
But I wouldn't call the reception weak.
You can try and do what I do - force roaming with an app like Roam Control. This way you may have a better signal and good battery life.
For me, the signal strength is pretty much exactly like my Original Evo. The wireless actually working on the other hand is not.
My signal is aweful compared to my og EVO. Right now my signal is -105dbm
Strange. My signal is 2-3 bars better than my OG...
I'm having issues with 3g staying connected. I'll lose it turn the radios off and turn back on. It days connecting that's it. I have to reboot to get data working. Updated profile and prl but wats odd is that it always updates and never tells me that I have the recent prl. Any ideas? It's really pissing me off!
I thought it was the weather but yea. My og seems to pick up signal in remote places better.
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Yes it is a known fact that the antennas in the new EVO are less efficient than the original EVO. Someone compared the FCC docs but I don't remember the difference. I think it was 2db difference.
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Yes it is a known fact that the antennas in the new EVO are less efficient than the original EVO. Someone compared the FCC docs but I don't remember the difference. I think it was 2db difference.
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Thanks for the info. Looks like ill be returning my EVO today sprints coverage where I work isnt the greatest to begin with and with a weaker antenna makes the phone almost unusable. Come on HTC and sprint, if your going to charge 200 for this phone at least put a decent antenna in it so I can do the basics like calling and emails.
I'll be sitting in one spot and my 3g will drop and the. Come back . It's kind of annoying
Mine was having problems roaming to other towers as well but I went in and changed the preferred network mode from LTE/CDMA to CDMA only and it's much better.
Took me forever to find where it was located: Settings -> Mobile network -> Network mode
Thought that hitting mobile network would just toggle it on/off but if you don't hit the on/off button it puts you into a submenu with more options.
The Wifi antenna seems much better but the mobile antenna seems not quite as good to me. Once I changed it CDMA only it's comparable to my OG Evo.
i'm having the same issues, I loose 3G connections, I have very low signal strength and it is killing my battery..
Ya ive seen a few people with this same issue. it seems like its only in places where i have a weak sprint signal is when the Evo 4g is worse than the OG.
Right now I am sitting at home and the OG evo is -84 dBm and the Evo 4g LTE is -79 dBm so the 4g LTE is actually getting a better signal than the OG.
Im going back to work later and im going to see what the numbers look like there. But on the 4g LTE i was barely able to get a 3g signal at work but the OG evo always had one.
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I wonder where you are located OP. We called Sprint and they keep telling us that they are "repairing a tower" near us in Mass.
Two additional notes. First, our internet/3G seems to be much faster since the upgrade from OG to this device. Ookla confirmed this too, about 3-4x faster download speed, 2x faster upload (about 800+ each). However, we have two devices and neither of them can phone anymore! Sprint even drops our text sms sometimes. We are thinking of returning the devices since Sprint has told us three times (one week ago, 3 days ago, and today) that they are "repairing a tower" and always changing the date (now to June 8).
The other thing is that one of the devices, in settings> shows whatever wireless/network is toggled on with red switch, and the other device shows the toggled on with green switch.
Does anyone else have better internet and no phone?
Does anyone else have red switch? It seems logical the "on" switch should be green.
Note: It doesn't make sense to me that I still get 3-4 bars on my old Evo (which was obviously deactivated) and it calls out to a "sorry no service" message loud and clear, but my new Evo can't even reliably send a text much less make a phone call.
Same problem here but mine is weird. I will have full bars and out of nowhere, I drop to 1-2 and it goes into roaming, except even though it's "roaming" I have no data or voice (yes I enabled roaming voice and data). It will stay like that from 1-8 seconds and then go back to Sprint's service. Also, if I tried to send a text during that time, it will fail and if I was getting a call it wouldn't show for 30 to an hour later.
What's weird is that my girlfriends Evo LTE was sitting right next to mine and had full bars all the time with no problem. I am thinking at least mine is a hardware problem. I'll monitor mine for another day and then take it in if the problem stays.
Mine helped switching to cdma only.
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Mine helped switching to cdma only.
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I've been doing that for a couple days and just yesterday it started dropping 3g for no reason again... Cell is just fine everywhere, but i called sprint and they said that there were tower outages until June1st. I'm sorry but i could've sworn today is the 4th? And i guess there is no more tech support department? Because I've called twice and they won't transfer me. Grrr
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So i was able to do some testing and found the Evo 4g LTE to be about 10 dBm less than the OG Evo in almost every place i tested them. Also sitting in my house about a quarter mile from a tower my 3g speed on speedtest.net was 97kbps down and 51kbps up with a 255 ping!!!!!
These speeds are not acceptable even in 1x let alone 3g.
I am trying everything not to return this phone but these kind of issues are so disappointing. I never had issues like this with my evo when it first came out :/
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Racer Of All said:
Same problem here but mine is weird. I will have full bars and out of nowhere, I drop to 1-2 and it goes into roaming, except even though it's "roaming" I have no data or voice (yes I enabled roaming voice and data). It will stay like that from 1-8 seconds and then go back to Sprint's service. Also, if I tried to send a text during that time, it will fail and if I was getting a call it wouldn't show for 30 to an hour later.
What's weird is that my girlfriends Evo LTE was sitting right next to mine and had full bars all the time with no problem. I am thinking at least mine is a hardware problem. I'll monitor mine for another day and then take it in if the problem stays.
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My problem was so bad - I was missing almost every incoming call, but instantly get a voicemail notification. Texts would come in once or twice a day - in large groups. After my phone working fine for 4-5 days I thought for sure, hardware problem. I hadnt rooted, reset to factory, update prl/profile (Through update and *2) etc etc .... no luck
Call and talked with CSR and techs etc for 3 days or so, with no luck. So I take it into my local repair shop - the lady took maybe 15 minutes with my phone, and told me something got hung up initially with the provisions. (Even though it worked fine for days)
So she reflashed software/reprovisioned my phone and its been golden since. Seems that "reactivating" the phone did the trick!
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My problem was so bad - I was missing almost every incoming call, but instantly get a voicemail notification. Texts would come in once or twice a day - in large groups. After my phone working fine for 4-5 days I thought for sure, hardware problem. I hadnt rooted, reset to factory, update prl/profile (Through update and *2) etc etc .... no luck
Call and talked with CSR and techs etc for 3 days or so, with no luck. So I take it into my local repair shop - the lady took maybe 15 minutes with my phone, and told me something got hung up initially with the provisions. (Even though it worked fine for days)
So she reflashed/reprovisioned my phone and its been golden since. Seems that "reactivating" the phone did the trick!
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Any idea if this can be done without going to a tech shop? I am often getting voicemails with no call. I have an Airave on the way because of this issue, but I'm not 100% sure that's the problem.
Switched to Sprint from T-Mo about 3 months ago. We switched when Amazon was having a 1 cent sale on all phones for new customers.
My first choice what the Photon, but I was swayed by the Super Amoled screen of the GSII Epic. I swore off Samsung phones after having the horrid Vibrant (with the never working GPS). I figured they must have learned from their mistakes...but nope.
Anyway, after 3 Epics (GPS, bad USB port and signal issues) I got tired of it and went and bought the phone I should have gotten in the first place, the Photon! :good: Wow!! I'm kicking myself for not getting this phone from the beginning. It just works.
Anyway, the only thing that bugs me is I still can't figure out how the signal strength bars work (with the dual colors). I've searched this forum as well as others and I'm still I think I understand the color coding, but not the bars themselves. The manual is no help as it doesn't explain the colors or bars.
I have six bars showing at all times. I assume that, unlike my previous phones, that the six signal bars will always show? At home one of the bars is always blue. In this example what does it mean?? I haven't had any calling issues and my data is plenty fast (4g) average 4.5 down.
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The bars light up blue when you are connected to your Google account and are grey when you're not.
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That I pretty much understand from reading other forum posts. Still wondering if I will I always see all the signal bars and how that corelates to my cell signal strength.
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Switched to Sprint from T-Mo about 3 months ago. We switched when Amazon was having a 1 cent sale on all phones for new customers.
My first choice what the Photon, but I was swayed by the Super Amoled screen of the GSII Epic. I swore off Samsung phones after having the horrid Vibrant (with the never working GPS). I figured they must have learned from their mistakes...but nope.
Anyway, after 3 Epics (GPS, bad USB port and signal issues) I got tired of it and went and bought the phone I should have gotten in the first place, the Photon! :good: Wow!! I'm kicking myself for not getting this phone from the beginning. It just works.
Anyway, the only thing that bugs me is I still can't figure out how the signal strength bars work (with the dual colors). I've searched this forum as well as others and I'm still I think I understand the color coding, but not the bars themselves. The manual is no help as it doesn't explain the colors or bars.
I have six bars showing at all times. I assume that, unlike my previous phones, that the six signal bars will always show? At home one of the bars is always blue. In this example what does it mean?? I haven't had any calling issues and my data is plenty fast (4g) average 4.5 down.
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Thats weird cause I have an Epic, Epic Touch and a GSIII and have no issues with any of them. In fact my Epic 4g has better GPS lock than my photon, both running CM9
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Switched to Sprint from T-Mo about 3 months ago. We switched when Amazon was having a 1 cent sale on all phones for new customers.
My first choice what the Photon, but I was swayed by the Super Amoled screen of the GSII Epic. I swore off Samsung phones after having the horrid Vibrant (with the never working GPS). I figured they must have learned from their mistakes...but nope.
Anyway, after 3 Epics (GPS, bad USB port and signal issues) I got tired of it and went and bought the phone I should have gotten in the first place, the Photon! :good: Wow!! I'm kicking myself for not getting this phone from the beginning. It just works.
Anyway, the only thing that bugs me is I still can't figure out how the signal strength bars work (with the dual colors). I've searched this forum as well as others and I'm still I think I understand the color coding, but not the bars themselves. The manual is no help as it doesn't explain the colors or bars.
I have six bars showing at all times. I assume that, unlike my previous phones, that the six signal bars will always show? At home one of the bars is always blue. In this example what does it mean?? I haven't had any calling issues and my data is plenty fast (4g) average 4.5 down.
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I could be wrong but from what I can tell you have 6 bars and will vary depending on your signal strength. Only time you won't see any bars is if cell signal is turned off (such as airplane mode). Even if there is no signal you should still get a no signal indication (at least I do).
Also, I was under the impression they turn a different color when using data, such as syncing with services.
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That I pretty much understand from reading other forum posts. Still wondering if I will I always see all the signal bars and how that corelates to my cell signal strength.
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Settings > about phone > status > signal strength...
There are a few apps and widgets on the market that will put this information on a workspace for easier viewing.
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Scottie,
I'm really just wondering if the bars reflect the cell signal strength at all. I know where to find it in the settings.
Sure would have been nice if they spelled it out in the manual! I mean, here at work I have 6 blue bars and get slower download speeds compared to my one blue bar at home. I guess it shouldn't bug me as long as it's working.
MikeyLee,
I had nothing but problems from the get go. Weak GPS on all three phones, the 2nd one also had the USB port fail (didn't know when it was unplugged). I went through 5 Vibrants when I was with T-Mo when they finally offered me a different phone. Sprint flat out said they would just keep replacing my phone with the same model so I just bought my Photon outright.
My wife had issues with her GSII. She kept dropping into roaming. Hers was replaced once and no problems since then. Her GPS works great, so go figure.
Blue bars is background data. Turn it off, and the bars are gray.
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My bars fluctuate depending on the signal as do all three Photons in my house. If yours are always 6 bars you must be living near a tower
Know that the stock base kind of 'lies' to you, Sprint always shows more bars than you may actually have, most carriers seem to do this.
Download a signal app or flash CM7 or CM9 and you'll see the true strength of your signal.
Hi all,
This question might have been posted already seeing as this phone is about a year old already. I'm running the STOCK ICS ROM OTA 4.0.4 unrooted. I've noticed that after the update my phone keeps switching from 4G to 3G and back but the problem is so bad that I lose every bar of signal (i.e. empty bars and of course no data) for at least a minute when the phone switches. I've already gone through the process of getting a replacement phone and I will need another because the receiver (speaker inside when I make a phone call, not sure what its really called) sounds awfully tinny and when the hang up tone plays the speaker sounds like its about to blow out. I lowered the in call volume to half, but it still doesn't work and my phone sounds tinny when ever someone talks during a phone call. I never had that problem with my old RAZR. As for the data issue, I am aware that I live in an old building because at the most I get between 3-4 bars of 4G LTE but sometimes as low as 2 bars. However, outside on the street I get full bars of 4G LTE and it still switches back to 3G on it's own. I have tried Motorola's restore connectivity app on the play store but that didn't work and I don't have anything like smart actions or LTE on/off app running on my phone.
Is anybody else having these issues? At first I thought Verizon sucks in my house but it doesn't I still get crystal clear sound on calls and text messages are promptly sent and received. I also, of course, live in a 4G LTE area with good solid coverage. As a control I have an iPad 4G LTE with Verizon on a separate account and it consistently stays connected to LTE. It never drops below 2 bars and the LTE of course maintains its fast speed. On the other hand, the RAZR, will switch between both technologies at least 5 times a day if not more. I know that they both have different radio technologies but they should at least be similar in some respect. I have also seen an iPhone 5 at the Verizon Corportate kiosk at my local mall. It's obvious there are repeaters but they are not for 4G because none of the phones are on 4G, they are on 3G. The iPhone 5, however, had one bar of LTE and it loaded up a web page just fine and I never saw it drop back down to 3G. I'm trying to see if there is a solution. Have any of the Jellybean ROMs addressed this issue?
First of all, I live in a suburb of Dallas which is completely covered in LTE according to Sprint's coverage map and I can affirm this by Sensorly and my own personal usage of my phone when I see 4G LTE in many places. However, lately I have noticed on the bottom floor of my house I usually get 1X or 3G, whereas upstairs I get 4G quite nicely. In other houses nearby (less than 1 mile), my phone doesn't even get data many times (and if it does, it is 1X) whereas other Sprint iPhone 5's are enjoying LTE in the same location.
Now I know our phone's have connection issues, but why am I not even getting 3G? Is there anyway to help force my phone to try and get more 4G signal because I know for a fact Dallas has pretty decent 4G coverage? When my phone goes into 1X it also seems to be sucking up quite a bit of battery. Any help is appreciated!
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First of all, I live in a suburb of Dallas which is completely covered in LTE according to Sprint's coverage map and I can affirm this by Sensorly and my own personal usage of my phone when I see 4G LTE in many places. However, lately I have noticed on the bottom floor of my house I usually get 1X or 3G, whereas upstairs I get 4G quite nicely. In other houses nearby (less than 1 mile), my phone doesn't even get data many times (and if it does, it is 1X) whereas other Sprint iPhone 5's are enjoying LTE in the same location.
Now I know our phone's have connection issues, but why am I not even getting 3G? Is there anyway to help force my phone to try and get more 4G signal because I know for a fact Dallas has pretty decent 4G coverage? When my phone goes into 1X it also seems to be sucking up quite a bit of battery. Any help is appreciated!
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MeanBean has the Roam only option baked in, just go to settings - mobile network and set it up... The battery drain is "normal" when the phone doesn't have a good signal... Roam or use wifi... I know it doesn't make sense but that's the now network...
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