So I had the pnone fora few days now and I lose connection to data and voice at least 5 times a dat. The apn settings are all correct. Any reason for this?
anyone have any idea? Its driving me insane
Have noticed covering the bottom of the phone with my hand cuts the single in poor reception areas ... like west Wales coast. currently holding top of phone in landscape to get enough of a service to type this. but service is very poor here.
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Just to say on t-mobile in a caravan just out side of new quay...
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I have the similar problem on Telus, but it only happens to me after turning off/disconnecting WIFI when it's been on/connected for a few hours.
I can be on wifi all day but the connection to bell will drop randomly. gettingnerves now. think I'll sell this and get an iphone again.
same problem with telus.... i bought a bell sg2 and unlocked it and have looses connection and data like 5 times a day
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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phyba said:
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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It'd under battery setting. Then tap on the graph at the top. It will bring up that screen
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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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to look at your reception status, simply go to "battery" and then hit the "cell standby" bar in the list of battery usage
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.
I bought an s3 a week ago on ebay. That was my first mistake the signal strength is awful browsing the internet without wifi is really bad it can take up to 5 secs to load google. Now my wife has an S3 with tmobile uk and hers is fine. Mine was originally on vodaphone but I am on O2 I have put her sim in mine flashed to the same stock rom and my s3 has still a poor signal normally two bars. Just tested I get -105dbm and 4asu. I can only conclude that after trying every network rom combination my phone is faulty. I had no joy with the ebay seller I am not sure I could take it to vodaphone as I was not on the original contract. Any idea guys how a resale affects warranty, ideally I would like the handset replaced or repaired. Lessen learned not to try and get an ebay bargain
How much did you pay for the phone??
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I've just looked at the status of my phone and I'm getting 95dbm and my phones fine, where do you live?? I live in hampshire on vodafone and the signal here is variable, despite living within a cats throwing distance to the cell tower (5mins walk)
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Have you tried flashing a different modem. I flashed lf2 modem and my signal strength was back to normal it was bad with lfb
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Have you tried flashing a different modem. I flashed lf2 modem and my signal strength was back to normal it was bad with lfb
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Or their is that option.....+1 buddy
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As stated, try an alternative modem which has resolved my network issues previously.
If it is still not resolved, contact Samsung - don't mention eBay purchases - the serial number will show up fresh on their system (tested with known blocked handsets lol) they will organised a repair; and 9/10 times will not request a proof of purchase unless referring you to a local center; but this issue would be hardware related so they will request sending it in. Just ensure you go back to stock.
thanks for the info. I expect Samsung should repair anything as long as the iemi number is not reported as stolen.
tried the LF2 modem and its made no difference, however I have used an tmobile sim this morning, signal strength is the same but 3g/H data is working really fast, now I am wondering if my data on my o2 sim is poor as its cut down microsim. going to get a proper 02 microsim and test again
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thanks for the info. I expect Samsung should repair anything as long as the iemi number is not reported as stolen.
tried the LF2 modem and its made no difference, however I have used an tmobile sim this morning, signal strength is the same but 3g/H data is working really fast, now I am wondering if my data on my o2 sim is poor as its cut down microsim. going to get a proper 02 microsim and test again
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As long as the gold contacts on the bottom have not been damaged it will have no effect - plus it wouldn't effect data tbh as all the phone will do is read your networks information and they send/receive the data. But feel free to try; I personally have noticed that 3G/HSPA/+ is a lot slower on O2 compared to any other network tbh - but then again these data connections for O2 has only recently been added to my area, up until a few months ago the fastest we could get was Edge on O2, while the rest of the networks in my area has had 3G for at least 2 years lol.
Hi guys I'm using an unlocked GT-I9300 on T-Mobile USA. This weekend I noticed the signal fluctuating from full bars to no bars where I usually get good coverage. Today I went to the about phone setting and noticed it was on HSDPA-9 when it gets bad signal and on EDGE when it gets the normal good signal. I'm curious what this means. I thought international sgs3 could only get edge on T-Mobile US? I'm not using data btw, connected to wifi, yet the signal still fluctuates.
My phone was branded T-Mobile Germany, but I flashed unbranded UK ICS.
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Hi,
Recently i have been experiencing some reception loss around some pretty built up areas. If anyone from Australia reads this, we all know how Vodafone usually has pretty average reception well yesterday I had nothing and a Vodafone had 2 bars on an S2. I haven't done a software update since the XEF firmware for JB was released for my device. I don't think I have been experiencing absolutely no reception before just the past week or two. I am on Optus so their coverage is supposed to get to 93% of Australia. Also the phone has been feeling a bit slow like laggy typing into Google Now.
Sorry to squeeze this all in, but when I do have mobile data, the battery sinks pretty quick. I know people who would have it on all day on phones like the GNex and I haven't tried but I not sure in would make it. Any ideas there.
Thanks in advance,
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