Hi guys, I just noticed that I can manage to reduce up to 2 bars from my wifi reception, just by placing my 2 hands on the both sides of the phone, like this (|) . Does this happen to you, too? Should I send it for repairs? Greets
It's normal. Hands blocking signal and both GSM&WiFi can drop even 2 bars.
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And is it normal to have around -60 dBm, when youre 4-5 meters form the router, but in the same room?
P.S. I ask all these question, because I had to send in my phone for repairs, cause of cracks in the silver bezel, and i dont know if they didnt mess up the antenna.
I think it's normal. I'm getting -70 dBm and router is just 2m away , through the wall tho.
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djembey said:
I think it's normal. I'm getting -70 dBm and router is just 2m away , through the wall tho.
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Can someone confirm this, pls?
As its Wifi you have the choice of trying different Kernels .
jje
JJEgan said:
As its Wifi you have the choice of trying different Kernels .
jje
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Yes, I know that, but I prefer to stick with stock.
DoRiLoN said:
Yes, I know that, but I prefer to stick with stock.
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Service centre or stick with it then is your only choices left .
jje
Well, I will send it back if i know it's really something wrong with the antenna. Thats why I'm asking the people, if its normal or not.
DoRiLoN said:
Well, I will send it back if i know it's really something wrong with the antenna. Thats why I'm asking the people, if its normal or not.
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Any masking of the antenna will have an effect on reception, and that is pretty much what they will say at a guess......it's not like you walk around using your phone clasped in both hands like that any way, so I really don't get your issue?
Your holding it wrong
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slaphead20 said:
Any masking of the antenna will have an effect on reception, and that is pretty much what they will say at a guess......it's not like you walk around using your phone clasped in both hands like that any way, so I really don't get your issue?
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Youre completely right. I just wanted to ask, if I have a problem with the antenna or everything is because of the hands So its normal to have -60 or more dBm, when I'm 4-5 meters from a router?
You sure you have an s3 and not an iPhone 4?
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NatTheCat said:
You sure you have an s3 and not an iPhone 4?
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Haha funny guy - not
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Anyone ever go into download mode and notice that their phone is making a 'clicking' noise. Really the only way to describe it. If the phone isn't in download mode, no clicking when connected to the USB cable.
Yeah, I've heard it before as well. I just imagine it's tiny little Samsung elves laboring away inside the phone, making $#!t happen.
It's the hard drive.
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It's the hard drive.
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Hahahahaha
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I get it too, but usually after installing a rom while rebooting.
Thats just the loudspeaker given short spurts of electricity. Or sparks inside your phone that makes the battery explode, not sure.
Its the LTE radio trying to connect to the towers so your phone can boot up to 10X faster than 3G boot times.
It's the BEATS hardware giving you a little somtin-somtin while you wait.
Its the awesomeness of this phone banging against the glass trying to get free
This thread makes me warm and fuzzy inside.
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It's the hard drive.
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This phone has a hard drive? I always wondered what that spin-up noise was.
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estxxas said:
Yeah, I've heard it before as well. I just imagine it's tiny little Samsung elves laboring away inside the phone, making $#!t happen.
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Me liked this one.
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estxxas said:
Yeah, I've heard it before as well. I just imagine it's tiny little Samsung elves laboring away inside the phone, making $#!t happen.
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K Rich said:
Hahahahaha
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Red5 said:
Its the LTE radio trying to connect to the towers so your phone can boot up to 10X faster than 3G boot times.
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axis01 said:
It's the BEATS hardware giving you a little somtin-somtin while you wait.
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Jank4AU said:
Its the awesomeness of this phone banging against the glass trying to get free
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I don't normally post just to post...but had to say I LOL'ed a couple times. Wonder which one of these is true?
Maybe ALL of them! YES!
Sat here and tried to come up with my own add on...but I can't match those.
hello guys,
is there any effect if i use my ace as broadband modem?
btw i'm using easytheater
No problem.... Works perfectly!!
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pvrx said:
No problem.... Works perfectly!!
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any side effect if i use for long time?
Hmm...You can use it without problem.
But your phone will be hot and battery drains very fast.
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Hmm...You can use it without problem.
But your phone will be hot and battery drains very fast.
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+ 1
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ok thank guys
Eats, your battery and overheats phone,
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Yes, the real effect is hsdpa usb modem manufacture lost one ptential customer, its gonna slow down global economic and drop oil price hhhggh
Real answer is "NO" effect, you buy device that has that feature on it.
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Yes, the real effect is hsdpa usb modem manufacture lost one ptential customer, its gonna slow down global economic and drop oil price hhhggh
Real answer is "NO" effect, you buy device that has that feature on it.
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LoL
I know with my old streak, there were some tricks that would help in low signal areas for me. Flashing radios, and build.prop tweaks definitely helped... is there anything like that for the note? I flashed the UCLD3 radio last night, seems to make it so I can at least get my email without using the rebel wifi we have set up in our office until the IT gurus take it down.
Try pulling your sum card where the bad area is...then wait for a min or two then place back in...a tech told me it helps! '
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Try pulling your sum card where the bad area is...then wait for a min or two then place back in...a tech told me it helps! '
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im trying this right now for ****s and giggles. i am in a crappy area.
pulling sim, putting it back in approx 120 secs.
UPDATE: That didn't do ****. i want that 2 minutes of my life back
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UPDATE: That didn't do ****. i want that 2 minutes of my life back
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BigBison, here you go: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/52/Back_to_the_future.jpg
techntrek said:
BigBison, here you go: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/52/Back_to_the_future.jpg
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about as good as it gets! lol
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UPDATE: That didn't do ****. i want that 2 minutes of my life back
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Bwahahahahahahahaha!
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Take anything a tech tells you to do with a large grain of salt....
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Back in 2003 or 2004 I overheard a tech tell somebody in a store that there was a recent bluetooth outage and that's why he had to pair their headset again.
Back on topic: any build.prop tweaks that anybody has used? I'll probably poke around it this weekend... I can't seem to find motivation to sit down with the phone while my car has a check engine light.
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Take anything a tech tells you to do with a large grain of salt....
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agree.
I think the term "REBOOT" is used WAYYYYYYYYYYYYY too much.
This thread is making me lol.
Signal strength mainly depends on service in the area, unless you move...you cant really do much to bump up the signal strength.
-Once you go NOTE, you'd say 4 inches a Joke
Change signal icons so they all have max bars!
Infinite service!
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yollasho said:
Change signal icons so they all have max bars!
Infinite service!
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ROFL!!!
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Anyone notice a significant slowdown when touching or holding the phone?
I go from 65Mb to 5mb. With 2Mb of actual speed.
Very annoying.
You're holding it wrong
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mundixx said:
You're holding it wrong
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Is there a special way to hold it that is not obvious to me. I can guess that the antenna is the top left corner.
mfpreach said:
Is there a special way to hold it that is not obvious to me. I can guess that the antenna is the top left corner.
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Actually, it's in the bottom left corner.
mfpreach said:
Is there a special way to hold it that is not obvious to me. I can guess that the antenna is the top left corner.
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He is joking. It's a reference to Apple's response to iPhone 4's reception issue lol. :silly:
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He is joking. It's a reference to Apple's response to iPhone 4's reception issue lol. :silly:
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Thanks, from what I have experienced, this phone is almost as bad as the iPhone for this issue. Why would they put the bloody antenna in the bottom left.
I get the same, unless I'm in the same room as the router I have to hold the phone in my right hand and keep my fingers behind the phone and the WiFi becomes unusable if I hold it in my left hand
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mfpreach said:
Thanks, from what I have experienced, this phone is almost as bad as the iPhone for this issue. Why would they put the bloody antenna in the bottom left.
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I have not experienced this before. What are you running? You can refer to the thread in my sig for the info you need to include to get the best results to your question.
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I'm on Resurrection 3.0.6 with the newest Siyah. Have tried most kernels too.
I feel like this issue is worse in jb but I'm not sure. I am thinking to downgrade to ginger just to try.
But I agree with the above I max out around 1mbs when holding with my left hand.
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There is a WiFi antenna gate issue in the upper left hand corner of the device. I would also like to announce HTC dev still works as of 2:30PM CST for at&t models.
Also there may be a signal issue for cellular but I can't confirm yet. Will update
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Irish Enigma said:
There is a WiFi antenna gate issue in the upper left hand corner of the device. I would also like to announce HTC dev still works as of 2:30PM CST for at&t models.
Also there may be a signal issue for cellular but I can't confirm yet. Will update
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You're holding it wrong.
Irish Enigma said:
There is a WiFi antenna gate issue in the upper left hand corner of the device. I would also like to announce HTC dev still works as of 2:30PM CST for at&t models.
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Did you turn on "Best Wi-Fi Performance" in the Advanced Wi-Fi settings? It comes off by default. That made all the difference on mine. Though I am using a case...
I'm having cell data issues too. A lot of 'server not found' in various apps.
Haven't had any connectivity issues at all so far. Doing better than my Nexus 4 in fact. Why is this being called "Antenna gate" if it isn't widespread?
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Haven't had any connectivity issues at all so far. Doing better than my Nexus 4 in fact. Why is this being called "Antenna gate" if it isn't widespread?
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Because people love to stick "gate" after everything.
Silellak said:
Because people love to stick "gate" after everything.
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Everything gate
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Silellak said:
Because people love to stick "gate" after everything.
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Lol I so far no issue with my gate
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This is beyond wrong and it's a whole lot of FUD. Stop covering the wifi antenna because that will decrease reception on any phone.
The One certainly does no worse than my Inspire.
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My signals have been fine all day too. The one is connecting better and faster than my old galaxy note.
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#popslanggate
There's a part of me that wonders what's next, the other part of me is skerred and needs to go to church.
getting too old for this s***
No issues here. Isolated issues should not be generalized as "gates"
I found that I had a higher signal before flashing a European Rom but when I looked at the signal strength both in the android status screen and using a signal app with both my personal and work HTC ones side by side they were both -85 but my work one still on the att rom showed an extra signal bar.
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I found that I had a higher signal before flashing a European Rom but when I looked at the signal strength both in the android status screen and using a signal app with both my personal and work HTC ones side by side they were both -85 but my work one still on the att rom showed an extra signal bar.
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Different ROMs display the same signal strength in different ways.
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I took the -gate reference as tongue-in-cheek and partially toward the Gap Gate thread.
Let's settle down.
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Haven't had any connectivity issues at all so far. Doing better than my Nexus 4 in fact. Why is this being called "Antenna gate" if it isn't widespread?
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Because people love to stick "gate" after everything.
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I agree and it's ridiculous..
We have a "Gap Gate" thread and now an "Antenna Gate" thread..
I guess it's an attention grabbing move.
What's next?
Screen Gate, Aluminum Gate, LTE Gate, Blink Feed Gate, Home Button Gate, Camera Gate.
I think I will just stop reading any thread that has "Gate" anywhere in the title.
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I agree and it's ridiculous..
We have a "Gap Gate" thread and now an "Antenna Gate" thread..
I guess it's an attention grabbing move.
What's next?
Screen Gate, Aluminum Gate, LTE Gate, Blink Feed Gate, Home Button Gate, Camera Gate.
I think I will just stop reading any thread that has "Gate" anywhere in the title.
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Sorry for offending you guys. Turns out at&t is doing tower work in my area. And the Wi-Fi thing is real bit goes away when you select that option an xda fellow was taking about. The title antenna gate was just the only thing I could think of at the time. It sounded better than WiFi issues. But anyways I'm sorry if I offended anyone
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Anyone know if HTC dev is still working?
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raqball said:
I agree and it's ridiculous..
We have a "Gap Gate" thread and now an "Antenna Gate" thread..
I guess it's an attention grabbing move.
What's next?
Screen Gate, Aluminum Gate, LTE Gate, Blink Feed Gate, Home Button Gate, Camera Gate.
I think I will just stop reading any thread that has "Gate" anywhere in the title.
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gate gate...
only data issue i had was with my plan. coming from an HSPA+ phone, i had to agree to a new LTE plan, which when first activated, was not going to take effect until the next billing cycle (4/29). I had to call again and have them start LTE service immediately.
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I found that I had a higher signal before flashing a European Rom but when I looked at the signal strength both in the android status screen and using a signal app with both my personal and work HTC ones side by side they were both -85 but my work one still on the att rom showed an extra signal bar.
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Yea thats just att manipulating the service bars like usual. Their tactics are pathetic.