I've tested my phone for 2 weeks before I decided I would post this thread..from what I've found in my house I will have full signal bars all around..I use my wifi because it is a lot quicker ..now when I am on wifi my mobile signal strength goes down..When my phone sleeps and I power screen back up my mobile signal will be zero bars and it will be stuck there..so I turn off wifi around nd restart my phone..of course all 5 bars are back and I have perfect service..until I turn back on wife then it happens again..I've Updated prl and profile a few times..I'm past my 14 days Idk what to do
brickcityms said:
I've tested my phone for 2 weeks before I decided I would post this thread..from what I've found in my house I will have full signal bars all around..I use my wifi because it is a lot quicker ..now when I am on wifi my mobile signal strength goes down..When my phone sleeps and I power screen back up my mobile signal will be zero bars and it will be stuck there..so I turn off wifi around nd restart my phone..of course all 5 bars are back and I have perfect service..until I turn back on wife then it happens again..I've Updated prl and profile a few times..I'm past my 14 days Idk what to do
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If you live in a stucco house then your inside a giant Faraday cage. 4G is suppose to penetrate better but I wouldn't know. Sprint does have Femtocell's but you have to go to the store twice for them to give you one. If it keeps up or you live in a stucco house then a Femtocell is the solution. It's the towers not your device. If your on stock rom then what you see as signal probably isn't realistic anyway. It will show 3G when it's not.
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My wife and I both have the Eris with the V3 leak. We live in a bad are in Pennsylvania as far as mobile signal is concerned and even our phone coverage is through an extended network. We have always had 1x mobile signal in our house and starting yesterday, I have started getting a 3G signal at home but she still gets 1x. Has anybody experienced this before? I live in 18337 are code. I have tried turning her mobile on and off, turning the phone off, but hers comes back to 1x. We have had the phones for about 6 months and have always had really slow 1x signal at home.
Hey Gang.
Last night I noticed that my phone didn't have full signal (4 bars) in my house. This is the first time since I've had the phone.
After playing with it for a while I noticed that if change from 3G to Edge then my signal strength goes from 1-2 bars (-110db) back up to 4 bars (-73 db).
I'm not sure if that's normal behavior. I've also noticed the the phone gets hotter than normal when transferring data via 3G and the battery drains like crazy (lost 50% charge over 2 hours of testing this morning).
I called my provider (Rogers - I'm just north of Toronto) this morning and they say that the one tower in my area seems to be working fine.
I did a factory reset using SEUS but still have the same problem.
Any ideas? I thought I'd try to reseat the antenna but I can't find the damn thing.
AdamUpNorth said:
Hey Gang.
Last night I noticed that my phone didn't have full signal (4 bars) in my house. This is the first time since I've had the phone.
After playing with it for a while I noticed that if change from 3G to Edge then my signal strength goes from 1-2 bars (-110db) back up to 4 bars (-73 db).
I'm not sure if that's normal behavior. I've also noticed the the phone gets hotter than normal when transferring data via 3G and the battery drains like crazy (lost 50% charge over 2 hours of testing this morning).
I called my provider (Rogers - I'm just north of Toronto) this morning and they say that the one tower in my area seems to be working fine.
I did a factory reset using SEUS but still have the same problem.
Any ideas? I thought I'd try to reseat the antenna but I can't find the damn thing.
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I am north of toronto Newmarket 4 bars -81db and 4 bars -87db ( 3g )
pm me and I can give ya a few tips hopefully to sort it out.
Rockjock007 said:
pm me and I can give ya a few tips hopefully to sort it out.
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Post any tips here please as it may help others.
XperiaX10iUser said:
Post any tips here please as it may help others.
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Of course after all we are all here to help yeah?
So after driving around and visiting the local Rogers shop, it appears to be a tower issue. Looks like the phone was working fine in the store and in town. I called tech support and they're sending someone out to the tower near my house. (<1 km or 1.6mi from my house). There was a power outage yesterday so that my have caused a problem. I'll post an update in a few days after Rogers checks the tower out. I'm hoping it's that. I'm thinking the extra heat may have been from the phone cracking up the antenna to try to connect. I remember someone say that in low signal areas their batteries drain fast.
I want to know if anyone else is having this strangeness before I call VZW;
Without moving an inch my signal goes from 2 bars of 4G to 2 bars of 3G and then back again. I set the phone down and wait a couple minutes and it jumps to 4G again. Very sporadic.
When I run Speedtest sitting at my desk showing 4G I get 6.5MB down and 25+ Up. Then, 3 seconds later when it jumps to 3G I am getting less than 1mb down and 500k up.
I have powered down, pulled the battery and held power button, the powered back on. (Several Times) Same results.
So far it's only inside my building so it could very well be environment related. I just want to toss it out there and see if I am the only one.
Thanks!
compnird said:
I want to know if anyone else is having this strangeness before I call VZW;
Without moving an inch my signal goes from 2 bars of 4G to 2 bars of 3G and then back again. I set the phone down and wait a couple minutes and it jumps to 4G again. Very sporadic.
When I run Speedtest sitting at my desk showing 4G I get 6.5MB down and 25+ Up. Then, 3 seconds later when it jumps to 3G I am getting less than 1mb down and 500k up.
I have powered down, pulled the battery and held power button, the powered back on. (Several Times) Same results.
So far it's only inside my building so it could very well be environment related. I just want to toss it out there and see if I am the only one.
Thanks!
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LoL, I feel your pain. It's the building you're in. I was thinking the same thing. As soon as I step outside, it's 4G central. You're not going crazy or anything.
When I'm on the edge of 4G coverage, mine does the same thing.
So far, when I'm at work is when I have that problem. It's quite annoying actually. Every other building seems to be fine outside of where I work.
WINGZERO619 said:
So far, when I'm at work is when I have that problem. It's quite annoying actually. Every other building seems to be fine outside of where I work.
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Better get a new job then.
jords12 said:
Better get a new job then.
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You ain't lying! I was like WTH! I honestly thought I broke the thing until I started walking out of the building. Kinda sad that it doesn't really work indoors at work. Like you said, time to get a new job... not yet, I like what I do lol!
When I'm in an edge of 4G area I notice it doing the same thing, it has having a hard time deciding what to do. Rebooting or putting in airplane/taking airplane off seems to fix it
Thanks folks! Glad to know it isn't just me. I did notice it happened when I was at the gym too. But in the car, truck or outside... Epic Awesomeness!
Always good to know I am not crazy, or at very lest not alone in my insanity.
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compnird said:
I want to know if anyone else is having this strangeness before I call VZW;
Without moving an inch my signal goes from 2 bars of 4G to 2 bars of 3G and then back again. I set the phone down and wait a couple minutes and it jumps to 4G again. Very sporadic.
When I run Speedtest sitting at my desk showing 4G I get 6.5MB down and 25+ Up. Then, 3 seconds later when it jumps to 3G I am getting less than 1mb down and 500k up.
I have powered down, pulled the battery and held power button, the powered back on. (Several Times) Same results.
So far it's only inside my building so it could very well be environment related. I just want to toss it out there and see if I am the only one.
Thanks!
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Same thing happened to me yesterday, although slightly more weird.
I was happily tethering away at the office on a nice strong, fast 4G signal for a few hours, then all of a sudden data dropped out completely. Restart the phone and it only shows 1TTX, but eventually flickers up to 3G, but won't go back to 4G despite numerous reboots. Eventually it settled back down to 4G and all was well.
I guess it was some kind of tower problem, as my location doesn't appear to be anywhere near a non-4G area (see map below). The area my office is in (near the 405 fwy and Van Nuys Airport) has excellent maximum speed coverages by AT&T and even T-Mobile; it would be shocking to me to learn that VZW in the same area isn't full 4G (it's not as map shows).
Hopefully this was just a fluke, but it has me nervous and I'll be keeping an eye on the performance during my 30 day test period.
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Same thing happened to me yesterday, although slightly more weird.
I was happily tethering away at the office on a nice strong, fast 4G signal for a few hours, then all of a sudden data dropped out completely. Restart the phone and it only shows 1TTX, but eventually flickers up to 3G, but won't go back to 4G despite numerous reboots. Eventually it settled back down to 4G and all was well.
I guess it was some kind of tower problem, as my location doesn't appear to be anywhere near a non-4G area (see map below). The area my office is in (near the 405 fwy and Van Nuys Airport) has excellent maximum speed coverages by AT&T and even T-Mobile; it would be shocking to me to learn that VZW in the same area isn't full 4G (it's not as map shows).
Hopefully this was just a fluke, but it has me nervous and I'll be keeping an eye on the performance during my 30 day test period.
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This is very similiar to what happened to me last night at a restaurant around 8:30pm in Tustin CA. Had one or two bars of signal, was streaming YouTube fine, data connectivity cut out even though signal was same, cycled through airplane mode, after a short period it came back at 1x then eventually back to LTE. I thought the LTE equipment bounced at that tower but it now sounds like it happened on a wider scale.
I guess it helps to post the following info to help correlate:
Occurrence: 1
Date and time: Fri 3/19/2011 ~8:30pm pacific time
ROM: 1.12.605.9 non-rooted
Same here. I'm still trying to figure out the battery life hand over from 3G to 4G and back. It does NOT appear to be graceful.
I too have had to revert to airplane mode to get 4G back up. What end up happening too is that 4G will be listed, but push notification stalls badly even though it seems like a solid signal.
Last night I turned off 4G the entire night and push was working fine in the morning, nearly instantaneous.
This morning I turned off 3G and forced 4G and after 4 hours everything seems fine with no push notification latency. So perhaps the hand off on the phone is real bad between 3G and 4G.
I used phone info from the market to toggle 3G and 4G, [email protected]
mi7chy said:
I guess it helps to post the following info to help correlate:
Occurrence: 1
Date and time: Fri 3/19/2011 ~8:30pm pacific time
ROM: 1.12.605.9 non-rooted
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I've had a couple of instances I suspect over the last three days, but only the one that mentioned above where I can be sure. For me it was:
Fri 3/19 ~2:00 PM Pacific
stock rom unrooted at the time.
I would expect that to go away as they expand coverage, remember that this network is still being rapidly expanded.
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Hopefully this was just a fluke, but it has me nervous and I'll be keeping an eye on the performance during my 30 day test period.
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Its 30 days for a defective exchange but 14 days to exchange or return the phone completely FYI
Here is a thing I have noticed and a friend got me thinking
If you pick up a call on 4G and travel into a non 4G area... your call will drop. Its weird because no one said this phone could support LTE voice.
But if you pick up a call on 3G and travel into a 4G area everything is fine, just be stuck on 3G until you end the call. Same goes for data, I tested this out with pandora and stays stuck on 3G until i stop.
The manager at the corporate store told me they were not having any problems with signal hand off's but I think he was lying or didn't know. I work as an agent at the edge of a 4G boarder and get tons of returns or questions about the service on the 4G air cards for people who live in the area or near the boarder.
Signal just drops before it decides what its going to try next, super annoying
Mine was switching all over the place and then would completely shut off with no data connection. I kept getting a retry. Finally I took the cover off and just put it back on and now it seems to be working fine. I guess the antenna was not connecting properly.?
you guys should try an evo on Sprint 4g and laugh at the wimax coverage.
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Hello guys..i bought a RAZR XT910 before about 3 weeks and i didnt notice any problems with it at all..its battery life the way i organised it with smart actions is very very good, better than my iphone 4...i have as well those black marks on the screen on low lighting and black pictures but i dont mind this either..as u can almost never see it...my problem is my weak wifi signal..i never noticed it those last 20 days as i have been working on my phone mostly on my computer desk so the phone was next to the router..the only place my phone gets 4/4 in wifi signal its when its next to the router..at 1 meter distance the signal gets 3/4 strength..at 5 meters 2/4 strength and at 10 meters the signal its lost..and this is only when im at the same room that has the router..if i go to another room the signal gets lost..especially when i close the door...i never had any wifi problem with my previous smartphones and i even had wifi outside of my house...please help me here..im quite desperate..what shall i do? return it and demand a replacement? ask for my money back? is there any way to fix this?
I don't have that problem but I'm wondering if you get it with other networks? Also have you tried resetting your router?
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yea i get it with all wifi networks...for example my university, work, home..etc
Hmmm. I just ran the Speedtest app and got 12Mbps download over my wifi. It would be interesting to try that a few places and show it to VZ. Maybe they can test it on their network.
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Heartl3ss said:
Hello guys..i bought a RAZR XT910 before about 3 weeks and i didnt notice any problems with it at all..its battery life the way i organised it with smart actions is very very good, better than my iphone 4...i have as well those black marks on the screen on low lighting and black pictures but i dont mind this either..as u can almost never see it...my problem is my weak wifi signal..i never noticed it those last 20 days as i have been working on my phone mostly on my computer desk so the phone was next to the router..the only place my phone gets 4/4 in wifi signal its when its next to the router..at 1 meter distance the signal gets 3/4 strength..at 5 meters 2/4 strength and at 10 meters the signal its lost..and this is only when im at the same room that has the router..if i go to another room the signal gets lost..especially when i close the door...i never had any wifi problem with my previous smartphones and i even had wifi outside of my house...please help me here..im quite desperate..what shall i do? return it and demand a replacement? ask for my money back? is there any way to fix this?
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Get wifi analyzer and see if you have good signal. I notice that the Wi-Fi graphic is conservative.
my RAZR was having trouble operating on WPA2-Personal secured wifi network.. so i changed the wifi settings to WPA-Personal with TKIP and the problems are gone so you might wanna try this before you RMA.
Mine had problems with dropped and weak signal which turns out to be because I had Bluetooth on as well. If I turn bluetooth off wifi works perfectly
My WiFi reception is appalling. It only see's my home network where as my three year old HTC Hero is seeing seven!
With my package I have the ability to connect to BT Openzone hotspots around the UK.
Not much use if you can't go more than 15ft from a router without the connection dropping!
Bluetooth is off and I have tried several WiFi analysers from the market, all show a very weak signal.
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On mine, yes the wifi signal (bars) are showing less then with htc desire, but I can connect without problems even the router is on the second floor and I am siting on the first, so reachable from the whole house.
I do experience, that it takes a little bit longer to find the wifi as with the desire, but once connected, works just fine.
I do not experience problems with hidden networks. Mine is not broadcasting the id, still connection is stable.
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The bars on mine seem less than what the signal actually is. I connect to my home wifi just fine, from all over the house. I also connect to work's wifi from what seems like the same distance as my previous phone (Dinc)
i'm using d-link dws-125 (usb router)
when i connect and start using internet, the network disconnects in a few seconds. then it connect again and the same... etc.
please, help!!!
same problem here, hope a solution can be found as the phone is unusable in its present state
The "single ball" is enough to achieve 10mbit at my place, however, I upgraded my firmware to OpenWRT and now I get two full lines and the "ball" in the bedroom.
Stock netgear firmware is.. Incomplete. :S
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Hi everybody,
I have the same problem mine is a razr from france even if i use it in italy, i found that when haveing the phone in the hand the signal gets very worst, if i hold the phone from the edges not in the hand the signal is much better i gain two signal bars, the same happens if i left the phone on the desk, the signal gest very good, as soon as i take it in the hand the signal gets bad, a kind of antenna gete from iphone....
hope this helps somebody
used to have this issue with weak wifi signals, but after installing the 85P radio update, it's gotten a bit better.
Sigh...thinking my phone may be broken or something.
When I'm in my room I get full signal (Linksys EA4500 Wireless-N router) but if I step into the kitchen which is like 10 feet away (and it's open air/no doors between my room and kitchen) I will either completely lose signal or it will switch between cell signal and Wi-Fi.
There is NO way it's my router as many other devices in my home work perfectly fine and my router is bad ass. So what's going on with my DNA? Something doesn't seem right at all. Plus I've noticed even my cell signal will sometimes just shut down (an "X" next to the bars) for like 5 minutes at a time. I'm using it with Straight Talk through AT&T so I don't know if that's the issue but it's dropping signal in places that my last phone worked perfectly.
Just odd connectivity. Anyone else having issues with their Wi-Fi at all? Thanks!