I've read some people say that wifi is not that strong on the S3... is this true for you? don't have an s3 but this may be a dealbreaker for me..
I have noticed that my SGS3 does not have as good of a signal strength when using my home wifi. Especially the range.
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For me, I don't think range is a problem. I continue to have timeout errors. I did a speed test and had a good test. But I will start surfing again and I get delays and timeout errors.
For me work well with low signal
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No complaints here. Picks up fast and strong. And full speed too.
Actually better than my previous phone and iPod.
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would they be able to correct the wifi strenght with a firmware update in future?
Compared to an s2, it does seem to struggle getting WiFi connection when they are sitting right next to each other.
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I have not noticed any major issues with wireless yet. In my bedroom my wireless router is a floor up and on the other side of the house and I can still connect fine with 1 of the 4 bars. My laptop and iPad have stronger connections but the phone works fine. I'll try to find my SGS2 tomorrow to compare signal strengths.
my wifi locks VERY FAST, faster than any other device i have had, havent noticed any speed / range issues
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I have not noticed any major issues with wireless yet. In my bedroom my wireless router is a floor up and on the other side of the house and I can still connect fine with 1 of the 4 bars. My laptop and iPad have stronger connections but the phone works fine. I'll try to find my SGS2 tomorrow to compare signal strengths.
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did you get a chance to compare with your s2 yet?
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did you get a chance to compare with your s2 yet?
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I just did a test with my vibrant, s2, & s3. The s2 has the strongest reading on my AP @ about -65dBm. The s3 is about -78dBm. The vibrant is the weakest at -83dBm. My AP is down one floor and on the other side of the house through several walls.
I've had no troubles connecting with any of them.
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I just did a test with my vibrant, s2, & s3. The s2 has the strongest reading on my AP @ about -65dBm. The s3 is about -78dBm. The vibrant is the weakest at -83dBm. My AP is down one floor and on the other side of the house through several walls.
I've had no troubles connecting with any of them.
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Decided to do another test closer to the AP.
Vibrant -65dBm
S2 -45dBm
S3 -52dBm
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Decided to do another test closer to the AP.
Vibrant -65dBm
S2 -45dBm
S3 -52dBm
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thanks for the tests... do you think the wifi when browsing on the s3 is a lot slower than the s2? or is it not noticeable?
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thanks for the tests... do you think the wifi when browsing on the s3 is a lot slower than the s2? or is it not noticeable?
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I haven't noticed any slowness, but I'll try to check that tonight.
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Yesterday I bought an i717 rooted and installed every rom, ICS, GB, and tried every modem. Telus, Blaze, KID, VK1...set all the WCDMA 1700 only... and tried use HSPA only, *#*#4636#*#* and *#2263#...just give me a speed of download 0.5mb upload 0.03mb...what should I do???
Is it the phone defect??? hope any pro can help me.
I would get $20 paypal donate to him if someone fix my issue... first come first serve.
If you normally get speeds faster than that its most likely a phone defect.
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try an app on the market called 3g/4g optimizer, saw about it on another thread. Helped me alot
I saw one guy here putting 2 pieces of aluminium foil and his phones speed increased
try it and see if it works on your phone!
also go to a different area and try your speed with speedtest.net
my gf is still upset about the phone...
My galaxy Nexus is super fast at my house 10+mb down 2mb up
but the note is like that...why?? i got 4G 4 bars signal.
vincentli119 said:
my gf is still upset about the phone...
My galaxy Nexus is super fast at my house 10+mb down 2mb up
but the note is like that...why?? i got 4G 4 bars signal.
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10+ down
2 up
Do you call that "super fast" ?
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10+ down
2 up
Do you call that "super fast" ?
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compare with the crappy i717 speed...
It Works ok if im less than 5 meters away from server. But anything over that and its unusable. I work about 10 meters from the server. And I get at least 2 - 3 bars of signal out of 4. And I can't even post a comment on here. The speed is very fast for about 30 seconds and then ridiculously slow. It also struggles to connect. Tries about 3 or 4 times before it connects. I'm running cm10 on s3 but have this problem on stock, omega and checkrom. I had simular problems with the s2 aswell but not s1. I don't want to use wifi kill as its my work and it might not solve the problem. Is this the s3 working on networks with multiple apns? Is there a code I can call to turn off power saving ?? Can't force to 5ghz either.
Some advice would be massively helpful. I am getting very frustrated.
Thanks in advanced
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Any ideas anyone?
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The s3 q&a is far more helpful than this whole community?
Thanks to d4seeker and jje
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Ive fixed mine!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1805572
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I believe the problem lies in network or in the wifi router. Maybe it's overloaded, try on-off cycling the router and see if it works then?
I kinda doubt that the issue is in the phone
I've fixed it now mate. Well chuffed. Don't know what it was really. But the method I used in above thread worked. It all started when I first rooted and flashed omega. Cm9 got rid of the authentication error (so it seems Sammy is at fault there) as for the WiFi range of about 3 meters and no connectivity after that distance. I'm not sure. Perhaps a problem deep in the settings I could not find. But completely wiping all settings worked. Not ideal. But confirmed working all day at work. So maybe a omega fault I don't know. Jus happy to have fixed it
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It Works ok if im less than 5 meters away from server. But anything over that and its unusable. I work about 10 meters from the server. And I get at least 2 - 3 bars of signal out of 4. And I can't even post a comment on here. The speed is very fast for about 30 seconds and then ridiculously slow. It also struggles to connect. Tries about 3 or 4 times before it connects. I'm running cm10 on s3 but have this problem on stock, omega and checkrom. I had simular problems with the s2 aswell but not s1. I don't want to use wifi kill as its my work and it might not solve the problem. Is this the s3 working on networks with multiple apns? Is there a code I can call to turn off power saving ?? Can't force to 5ghz either.
Some advice would be massively helpful. I am getting very frustrated.
Thanks in advanced
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It can be many problems! Maybe the ROM that you are runing has poor Wi-Fi support or maybe the phone is just "getting old" or maybe its the Wi-Fi set that sends you the signal!
I got a s3 which is not old but I've fixed it now. Thanks
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Is there any reason my phone says it has a strong wifi signal but it keeps dropping wifi and starts using verizon network instead?
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new JB basband rooted and unloxk with jailbreak method
that's it........
Thought there may be a JB vs L4 modem and rom issue (New at this...)
Thanks
Or it may be changing settings when one first gets the phone and doesn't read (not that there is a manual) about each setting first.
Is it dropping while the screen is on? There's a setting to turn off wifi when the screen is off
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Is it dropping while the screen is on? There's a setting to turn off wifi when the screen is off
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That's what I thought the problem was but I was wrong............
Turns out the phone jack in the kitchen died so the wife moved the phone into the office. Cut my wifi signal by half, so in those areas where it was iffy to begin with, it was switching to Verizon.
I think it is all solved........(but I thought that last time.
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Is it dropping while the screen is on? There's a setting to turn off wifi when the screen is off
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Well NOT fixed...and it is dropping when the screen is on. The always on is selected.
HELP ! ! ! !
And it's not a signal strength issue?
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And it's not a signal strength issue?
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Well.....my laptop is at 9.8 mps and the phone is getting 5 mps so there is some problem but signal strength says very strong.
When is the last time you rebooted your router?
As a pre-emptive strike, I am not interested in other devices work fine and there is no reason to because of that. They aren't using the same wifi card and they all behave differently with their own little quirks. Point in case, I have had my PC lose wifi, but my phone is fine and a router reboot clears it up.
Is it while MMS messaging? I've noticed my phone switches to 3g/4g while sending MMS, even if wifi is on.
Compared the wifes s3 side by side with my note and they dropped together so did a factory reset of the router and all is well.
Thanks for the efforts.....
This morning I was outside with my wife and decided to run a speed test to see how well my home WiFi connection was on the patio. Then I switched over to AT&T and... WOW! My best result by far. Currently running stock JB and Mystery Faux 4.1 kernel.
Lets see everyone's results...
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This morning I was outside with my wife and decided to run a speed test to see how well my home WiFi connection was on the patio. Then I switched over to AT&T and... WOW! My best result by far. Currently running stock JB and Mystery Faux 4.1 kernel.
Lets see everyone's results...
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LTE is no joke. I've been trying to tell my friends that it makes HSPA + feel like dial up. I only have 2-3 bars right now. I'll come back and post when I can get a better signal.
LA area. Much better than pre jb speeds. Still nowhere near the 40+mbps I was getting in Oakland.
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I'm a against picketing but I don't know how to show it.
Makes you think paying for a ISP is a waste when you got LTE. Im on T-Mobile LTE and I average 14-20mbps in washington dc.
I agree. I've been debating dropping Cox internet.. but then I have to pay to tether and even with "unlimited" data.. I'll end up getting throttled..
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My phone is on fire
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You don't want to be throttled...
hollywood528 said:
This morning I was outside with my wife and decided to run a speed test to see how well my home WiFi connection was on the patio. Then I switched over to AT&T and... WOW! My best result by far. Currently running stock JB and Mystery Faux 4.1 kernel.
Lets see everyone's results...
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That's more than 50x my home internet. For some reason the 1.5 I'm paying for is currently only hitting .6 down. Time to complain to Centurylink
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You don't want to be throttled...
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I have noticed my throttled speeds are higher on LTE than they were when I was on a non 4G phone.
My throttled LTE speeds are actually as fast as my HSPA+ full speed was, (8Mb/s)
Luckily I haven't seen those dial up speeds since I've had my LGOG
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who is from philippines here that use LG Optimus G e970 (AT&T)
This is running snow JBV1.1 and mysteryemotionzv5 kernel.
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This is running snow JBV1.1 and mysteryemotionzv5 kernel.
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And it's on WiFi.
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First picture (40+ Mbps) is Huntsville, AL (all servers are either Birmingham, AL Nashville,TN, Atlanta, Georgia, or Arab, AL.
Second and third pictures are many hometown, Gurley, AL.
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This is with 3 bars of lte running snowjbv1.1 with mystery emotions kernel.
Low network speed
I was in an AT&T store playing with various phones (I haven't decided which phone I want yet) and one of the tests I ran was speedtest. Turned off wifi on an HTC One, SGS4, and LGOG. The SGS4 and One both grabbed ~22/~6 down/up speeds, but the LGOG was in the ~6/~2 down/up range. All AT&T employees were really busy, so I couldn't ask them for help.
Can anyone think of a reason why this would happen? I ran the test multiple times. (I didn't try to troubleshoot other than rerunning the test)
The network was probably really bogged down by multiple people using the network off the same tower. "Heavy traffic"..
Correct me if I'm wrong. Just my educated guess.
As you can see from the above speed tests.. the LGOG has no problem getting high speeds
Also did you check to see what network it was on...
4G or HSPA+.... the symbol would have said 4GLTE or 4G respectively
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I had always read that Samsung phones had signal issues on cdma networks. This is my first Samsung device after several HTC. My wife and I are both dropping calls daily in front of our house. I cannot hold a call in my front entry way. Our previous rezound and thunderbolts did not have this problem and neither do our kids droid DNAs.
I called Verizon about getting a network extender because other than signal issues, we love the notes. They want 300 for it. I refused. They sent out techs to check signal in our location and say we have 3 towers blanketing our area so it's the phone. Still won't give us a free network extender. They agree it's a device problem. They say they have no phone comparable to the note to switch to and said there was nothing they could do. I told them to send another note to try. I guess I will keep going through notes until they other me the new Motorola's in a couple of months. They did offer me an upgrade, but I'm not giving up unlimited data.
I might hold out and try to get the next HTC phone that drops, either DNA 2 or one.
It really sucks because otherwise this phone is the best but dropping calls daily really sucks...
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You could get one from eBay
http://www.ebay.com/sch/sis.html?_k...RELESS+CDMA/EVDO+NETWORK+EXTENDER+FOR+VERIZON
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Just hang in there, after you get a few replacements from VZ they will offer you a different model.
I think I'm going to hold out. It might take awhile. I'll only take a phone with 32gb of storage and a big battery unless it comes with sd card slot
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eBoody said:
You could get one from eBay
http://www.ebay.com/sch/sis.html?_k...RELESS+CDMA/EVDO+NETWORK+EXTENDER+FOR+VERIZON
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Thanks for the link, but I shouldn't have to buy extra equipment because Samsung can't make good cdma radios.
Curious if anyone else has wifi drops regularly. Both my phone and tablet drop and reconnect wifi pretty often. You see a message that briefly pops up.
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Thanks for the link, but I shouldn't have to buy extra equipment because Samsung can't make good cdma radios.
Curious if anyone else has wifi drops regularly. Both my phone and tablet drop and reconnect wifi pretty often. You see a message that briefly pops up.
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My note does not have any issues with wifi. Check that its the phone and not the router.... really really sounds like its not the phone.
As for signal issues, My note did have issues with verizon. i switched to AT&T with the same phone and its 10x better. Probably more to do with my area than actual reception problems though.
Interesting my note gets far better signal strength than my 2 previous HTC devices I had. The only thing I don't think it matches up to is Motorola who I believe build the best radios period.
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My note does not have any issues with wifi. Check that its the phone and not the router.... really really sounds like its not the phone.
As for signal issues, My note did have issues with verizon. i switched to AT&T with the same phone and its 10x better. Probably more to do with my area than actual reception problems though.
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Don't think it's the router because it happens on both my note 2 and note 10.1
at home and at work. Sometimes it will kill downloads, sometimes it's fast enough not to matter.
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Interesting my note gets far better signal strength than my 2 previous HTC devices I had. The only thing I don't think it matches up to is Motorola who I believe build the best radios period.
The signal strengths match in setting between Samsung and HTC, but HTC phones seem to hold lower signal better where Samsung just gives up and you lose the call. Also, Samsung is quicker to jump over to 3g while HTC holds onto that one bar of lte better.
This has been reproducible for me on multiple Samsung and HTC devices (2 notes, 2 thunderbolts, rezound, 2 DNAs)
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i've always had better signal strength with my Samsung devices vs HTC, with absolute best signal from Motorola devices.
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nrfitchett4 said:
Don't think it's the router because it happens on both my note 2 and note 10.1
at home and at work. Sometimes it will kill downloads, sometimes it's fast enough not to matter.
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Just curious - are you running stock or have you unlocked and rooted?
try flashing a different modem
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try flashing a different modem
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Might try that, but pretty sure I've already flashed all of them at some point.
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Just curious - are you running stock or have you unlocked and rooted?
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I'm rooted running custom and wife is stock
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Just to follow up, took kids to dentist yesterday which is in a small town, outside of San Antonio. My phone had 1x, kids dnas had a couple of bars of 3g.
Swapped mine for a new note 2 (refurb) and is still dropping calls. Think I might just have to buy the extender...
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