I am trying to decide between the m8 and the lg g3 for my next phone. I am coming from a galaxy s3. I use the gps on my phone quite often for work. How is the accuracy, signal lock, lock on time, etc of the gps on the m8? On my galaxy s3, it was pretty solid. I could get locks in 10 seconds or less and would be accurate within 10-20 feet. Almost never lost a signal unless going through a tunnel. For those that use their phone gps several times per week, how does the m8 compare?
Thanks in advance
Had my M8 since May 9th, have yet to see signal lost and I use GPS on average of 3 times a day
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From inside my house, locked on GPS in 5 seconds, accurate to 12 feet. (Actually, that's pretty good even with the AGPS. )
The only trouble I ever have with it may be more related to my Jaybird Bluebuds
X Bluetooth headphones not giving me turn by turn directions when I near my destination... without those headphones, or with wired headphones, GPS is great.
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i use my M8 for navigation 10 hours a day 6 days a week non stop..i occasionally get a GPS Signal lost alert once every 3 weeks..I cover a very large territory than most people(north FL-Jacksonville to The Keys weekly)Other than that its been great.
Best GPS I've used out of all 20 android phones I've owned.
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I use it for running with mapmyrun all the time. It's been flawless... never had an issue.
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From inside my house, locked on GPS in 5 seconds, accurate to 12 feet. (Actually, that's pretty good even with the AGPS. )
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I was just browsing this thread while looking for info on getting the files to unlock the bootloader on my new M8. I wanted you to know that I gave you thanks, because of the fact that you don't accept personal donations, but instead recommended that people donate to a charity of your choosing. The world could use more people like you.
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Anyone have any experience with these ?
Does Tmo normally make you buy them or what ?
I have an issue with signal and data only at work but, after pricing
Sprint, Verizon, and At&t, I would be paying double what I am now each month.
I called them and they said I could only get one for home use because
if a call was made to 911 from another cell phone in the signal booster
radius, 911 would not be able to tell the phones location.
Would they even be able to tell that I was using it at work instead of home ?
I just signed a new contract a week ago and bought the Amaze so I am well within the 30 days I have to reverse the contract.
I cant tether at work, I can barely make a call, and many times I cant even do that.
You could change your billing address to work and then go that route. The 911 part is likely a regulation so I don't think there's anything you can do about that.
id also like to know more about a signal booster? the woman at the store mentioned it but tech support didnt
going_home said:
Anyone have any experience with these ?
Does Tmo normally make you buy them or what ?
I have an issue with signal and data only at work but, after pricing
Sprint, Verizon, and At&t, I would be paying double what I am now each month.
I called them and they said I could only get one for home use because
if a call was made to 911 from another cell phone in the signal booster
radius, 911 would not be able to tell the phones location.
Would they even be able to tell that I was using it at work instead of home ?
I just signed a new contract a week ago and bought the Amaze so I am well within the 30 days I have to reverse the contract.
I cant tether at work, I can barely make a call, and many times I cant even do that.
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do you have wifi at work? nov 13th the wifi calling update is going to be released (hopefully)
I'm with TMO and just got their signal booster about a week ago.
The tech support person I talked to wasn't particularly helpful and seemed very concerned about following her script rather than actually helping - that said, to get the free booster, you must meet their criteria precisely, no room for judgement here.
Their requirements are you are not in an apartment complex, you have to have 2 bars of signal, and the person I talked to was extremely concerned with the physical size and floors of my house.
Installing the unit is really simple - there is a receiver and a transmitter. The receiver needs to be in the best place to get a signal in your house and the transmitter basically needs to be in the middle of your house. The two devices need to be a certain distance apart to work. Again this was a source of confusion with tech support. She was convinced the device only works on one floor and there is only one part to it. I mention this in case you have similar issues communicating with TMO.
All in all, it took about 45 minutes on the phone to get the device and once it was here, 10 minutes to get everything in place. Since then I've had a great signal here - 4 or 5 bars. Data has been around 14mbs down.
Anything else?
Thanks. I will have to stay on them about this signal booster. Can't wait to have signal ay home
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I don't have wifi at work .
I just wonder if they could tell if I used it at work .
I wouldn't leave it on all the time it even leave it there because
risk of loss.
I do only have randomly one or two bars at home though .
Guess I'll try and get one.
I can't see how they could tell where it was being used.
The issue though is capacity.
The way the device works is the receiver is put where you get the best signal. It then re transmits over a different open public frequency (like a cordless phone), to the transmitter. The transmitter then acts like a mini cell tower.
The problem is the transmission between the two units has a limited bandwidth. If more than a few cell phones are talking to the transmitter, the band width will be used up and signal will degrade.
So if you take it to work and no one else winds up connecting to it, you're fine. But if more than a couple of cell phones connect, you will all get crappy service. (this is also why they don't use it in apartment complexes)
buy/own your own signal booster. the same one you can get from T-Mobile:
http://cel-fi.com/overview#get_celfi
use this code to get $100 off:
Code:
5BARS
it's expensive... $525-$100=$425, but you don't have to jump through T-Mobile's hoops to get it and use it
338lm said:
buy/own your own signal booster. the same one you can get from T-Mobile:
http://cel-fi.com/overview#get_celfi
use this code to get $100 off:
Code:
5BARS
it's expensive... $525-$100=$425, but you don't have to jump through T-Mobile's hoops to get it and use it
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OK I will get one myself as T-Mobile required a two year contract
And I just this month entered one for this phone.
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OK I will get one myself as T-Mobile required a two year contract
And I just this month entered one for this phone.
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If you're already in a contract, its not an additional 2 years, its 2 years from the date they send the device.
I got my phone, under contract, a month before I got the cell booster, so in effect it only extends my contract one month.
If you plan on buying a unit, and you're not intimidated by a little wiring, there are better options out there for the same or less money. They just require you to run a cable from the receiver to the transmitter. (search amazon for wilson electronics)
Those options allow you to get customize your antenna to allow for a much better signal.
-Tony
Tony,
Do you have a link to the repeater that T-Mobile sent you? I have very marginal reception in my house, and want to look over what it is they send you. Any other tips (which number did you call? etc.) for getting one of these repeaters? I just got my Amaze a couple days after it was released.
Ryan
Contracts don't add up so you wouldn't have 4 years... You'd just extend 2 years starting at this point.
Cel-fi is the brand.
I just called the regular customer service number and went to technical support. I had to talk three people to get to the right person - they each knew it was possible to get a booster, but weren't empowered to make it happen - and the final person wasn't too up on things either.
Just let them know you have at least two bars in an area of your house near a window (don't know why, but the person I talked to was concerned this was the case) and the rest of your house is worse. If you live in an apartment, that will exclude you. The person I was talking to was also convinced a three story house was out of the question, but its working perfectly for me.
It may not work for you and if it doesn't they do have a 14 day or 30 day (I forget which) period that you can return the device and they roll back any commitments .
If your signal is really bad, you may have to purchase you're own unit with a directional antenna. They're not hard to set up, just way more time consuming to install and cost about $350+/-
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Tony,
Do you have a link to the repeater that T-Mobile sent you? I have very marginal reception in my house, and want to look over what it is they send you. Any other tips (which number did you call? etc.) for getting one of these repeaters? I just got my Amaze a couple days after it was released.
Ryan
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Ah, i looked up the Cel-fi, and it won't work for me
http://cel-fi.com/overview#get_celfi
I only have 2G at my house, and this requires at least 1 bar of 3G. I'll just wait for the WiFi calling on the Amaze, then I wouldn't need it anyways.
Hi, I've been comparing my hox+ with my old hox in regards to navigation, using GPS status I can get less than a meter accuracy on the hox but only pick up around 8 SATs, on the hox+ I can pick up more than 17 SATs but can't get less than 4meters accuracy, now if there was a connection problem then I can't see the phone picking up 17 SATs and getting a fix within 30secs, can I get some feedback from other hox+ owners to see how accurate your phone is before I decide whether mine is busted or something, I've recently had the screen and unibody replaced, mobile signal and WiFi are working brilliant, so I think its an issue with the phones hardware, but hoping I'm not the only one as I've only had my phone back a week, not even used it hardly since purchase.
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As long as you're GPS is picking up satellites it's working fine. All you have to do is modify the region servers by editing the GPS.conf file found in system/etc.
Lots and lots of threads on this already but you could easily just compare the file to your hox and enter in the same settings.
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OK so I've had my m8 for a year or so now. Never been impressed one way or another as to bad reception or good reception. However, now twice in one week I saw side by side comparison to other AT&T phone s (iPhone 6 and galaxy s5) and the reception was worse.
Today while traveling in the car with my wife south of Cincinnati I noticed that my m8 had no service. So I checked my wife's iPhone6s. Two bars. This went on and off where I had no service for 90% of 15 miles or so. The iPhone maintained service the entire time!
I posted similar is in the M8 Android Development radio thread after making a trip last week with two iPhone and an s5 user s. My service, side by side, was much worse. It was suggested that I flash the latest developers firmware and radio which I did. 4.16.1540.8. Based on my drive today with my wife it didn't help.
Does the M8 radio just suck compared to the iPhone or does someone have done other suggestions for improving cell reception? And yes I know its different for different areas but I've tried several radios now and the result seems to be the same.
The bars don't mean jack. There is literally no standardization to what the bars symbolize. I've had 2 bars on AT&T plenty of times, and you can't get a call out, much less data. And my wife reports similar on her iPhone.
Whether your phone or hers can make or receive calls and texts, or get data; or what the dBm reading in Settings; those are the only real indicators of signal quality.
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OK so I've had my m8 for a year or so now. Never been impressed one way or another as to bad reception or good reception. However, now twice in one week I saw side by side comparison to other AT&T phone s (iPhone 6 and galaxy s5) and the reception was worse.
Today while traveling in the car with my wife south of Cincinnati I noticed that my m8 had no service. So I checked my wife's iPhone6s. Two bars. This went on and off where I had no service for 90% of 15 miles or so. The iPhone maintained service the entire time!
I posted similar is in the M8 Android Development radio thread after making a trip last week with two iPhone and an s5 user s. My service, side by side, was much worse. It was suggested that I flash the latest developers firmware and radio which I did. 4.16.1540.8. Based on my drive today with my wife it didn't help.
Does the M8 radio just suck compared to the iPhone or does someone have done other suggestions for improving cell reception? And yes I know its different for different areas but I've tried several radios now and the result seems to be the same.
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I used to have signal problems (when I used my Evita and with my M8) for quite awhile where I work. It wasn't until I flashed the Dev radio I recommended that I became the ONLY person to be able to use my phone in an area we all call cell phone hell. Even the Iphone and flip phones couldn't get a signal. I initially flashed the 4.4.4 Dev radio and that did the trick. Now that I have moved on to the current Dev radio, I still see better performance.
Here's the important part though, cell reception areas differ greatly. Any number of issues may cause this. I knew a guy who lived right between two cell towers and the jumping back and forth between the two was killing his battery even though he showed he always had signal. (we confirmed this by moving closer to each tower.) He constantly had dropped calls. So it's possible your baseband may not be the issue.
Anyway, if you have funds, they make cell repeaters you can buy and boost your signal in areas you frequently are for long periods of time. But other than flashing a few radios to experiment (S-Off!) That's the best I can tell you.
Anyone having issues with signal? At work, my signal now tanks. Sometimes no data, or 2G, or just edge. I came from a G4 and it was ok at the same location.
Where did the signal history go? It use to show a graph under battery stats but I can't find it.
Yes and not to high jack your thread but I can't connect to my microcell either so I'm bummed low signal and can't use my microcell has me considering this phone a goodbye.
I find the signal am this phone to Be better than other phones.
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I did have 2G at work when I was on my V10, but when on my Note 4, I had LTE signal, wonder if it is the bands used in the V10
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Mine does fine in areas where I had excellent signal, but in areas where I was weaker, not poor, but just weaker, it's all downhill now. Ping tests taking 3000+ ms. Download speeds at .01mbps where it was 30mbps on the G4. Then it will go from 4g to nothing, the 2g, then E. Its all over the place.
I have noticed this as well at my house. Phone goes into emergency call mode all the time. Wifi calling always drops calls and says I'm going out of range sitting right next to the router. Had to turn it off cause it was worthless, but the signal is terrible as well. Only had problems in one back corner of the basement in my house with the Note 4. V10 I can lose signal at anytime anywhere in the house.
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Yes and not to high jack your thread but I can't connect to my microcell either so I'm bummed low signal and can't use my microcell has me considering this phone a goodbye.
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I bought a Netgear Nighthawk X8 to replace the T-Mobile router I'd be returning for the 4G LTE Cellspot but have heard there's issues. Wish I knew more about it and if it was going to be fixed. Was looking forward to having good signal at my home. T-Mobile has been saying 4G LTE has been coming for 2 years. Last reply was they are testing and will be on by end of this year, fingers crossed.
Definitely have issues with signal. Hoping it's a software fix. Afterall this id's the first phone with the Qualcomm Antenna
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Anyone having issues with signal? At work, my signal now tanks. Sometimes no data, or 2G, or just edge. I came from a G4 and it was ok at the same location.
Where did the signal history go? It use to show a graph under battery stats but I can't find it.
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You may want to exchange for a new phone, see if you get the same results. Of those who responded, I believe you are the only Verizon customer, and of the others on this thread it looks like some T-Mobile users and one on AT&T. I'm going to get a V10 later this week, as long as I get a little better than my current phone signal wise I'll be happy.
Mine is actually on t-mobile. I'm okay with swapping it out but I don't want a refurb. I should go talk to my store this weekend and see what they'll do
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My signal is way better at work than when I had my g3.
Mine is decent, not quite as good as my Nexus 6 but it isn't to far off
I'm going to swap mine this week and see if it gets better. Like someone said I don't want a refurbished and I hope they don't charge me for restocking fee. How would I know if it's a refurbished one they can't just give me one without telling me can they?
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I'm going to swap mine this week and see if it gets better. Like someone said I don't want a refurbished and I hope they don't charge me for restocking fee. How would I know if it's a refurbished one they can't just give me one without telling me can they?
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If ur within ur 14 days it will be a new one, not refurbed. Refurbs will say where the battery goes.
Got my V10 yesterday. At home I'm getting mostly 3G, sometimes 4G. I'll get one to three bars depending on the time of day, phase of the moon, and the amount of coffee I've had. This is about the same as I had with my BlackBerry for the last couple of years. The "city" here always has people fighting cell phone tower installations for years now. I've been told they are allowing Verizon to put some micro towers on some utility poles sometime "soon" because they have to comply with some sort of Federal law. I was hoping it would be better, but it's not worse either, plus my fingerprint reader works with a case......still have 12ish days to test things out.
I am getting much better speed with this phone then I did with my G3 on AT&T.
On my V10 now from AT&T. I also noticed both Cell and Wi-Fi connections are weaker than with my Samsung galaxy s5...it's weaker (about 65% where s5 was 90%+) but at least it maintains Wi-Fi connection unlike the S5. I especially notice it when streaming music. I do show on 4g LTE most of the time but never had more than 3/5 bars...I hope they can fix in an update.
I think mine is OK with LTE. You can force LTE or LTE/WCDMA
dial 277634#*#
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I am using a VZW version with my TMO sim and this is the first VZW 2 TMO phone I have used (used a z3v, note 3 and note 4 from VZW on my tmo sim) that does not get 4gLTE. Its very rare that the 4gLTE lights up. Its usually at H or H+ which isnt too bad but id rather have LTE. Hopefully its a SW fix soon.
I`ve got poor reception too. I am on a carrier outside U.S.
Many drop call and ping time is long. Fail to send or receive data. Have to enter flight mode to fix the problem.
I exchanged my T-Mobile V10 a couple days ago and signal is better now. I think my other one has a bad radio.
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Ok, I'll try to get to the point as simply as I can...
I live on the moors, signal is awful, o2 (UK) is the ONLY network to have any reception at home, yes we have tried others, nothing else works!
Now, over the past 3+ years we've discovered a pattern, all android phones have had unbelievably bad reception. My cousin has just bought a new Moto X force (droid turbo 2 in us) and seeing as the antenna is on the outside like the s6, HTC etc we had hoped for the signal to be good (and that Motorola have been playing with aerial tech longer than most) but it is almost unusable.
The annoying thing is that my uncle's iPhone 4s is brilliant, almost as good as some of the old "dumb" phones, it just works, OK no way does it get full signal, but by far enough to make calls and text, where as 90% of the time the other android phones have nothing. I'm NOT comparing "bars" here, I'm comparing one having signal, and one not.
Now, we have tried this list of phones, and they're all pretty much the same
HTC wildfire
HTC Desire
HTC Desire HD
Nexus S
Nexus 4
Nexus 5
Nexus 6
LG G3 < the worst signal by far
Moto g (2013) < best out of the list
Moto X Force
I have before now tried different basbands on a couple, phone cases off, cases on etc but cannnot figure for the life of me why the iPhone just works so much better than everything else. Any suggestions? What android phone has the best radio? I'm just lost and need answers :/
And just to point out, I am not biased toward IPhone, never personally owned one, and never will.
Inb4:
Why don't you get a signal booster
Why don't you use WiFi calling - we live on a huge farm, wouldn't work
It's just a placebo - No, it really isn't, next to each other in a weak area, one has signal and can make calls, one cannot.
Dave