At least when I compare it to my Galaxy S4. I had noticed it didn't have as many wifi bars when I was in the same room a ways away from my router so at first I decided to go right into the room where my router is and test it literally a foot away from the router.
Looked promising.
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GS4 left, LG G3 right
But then I went back to the room where I'm usually at in my house when using the phone and it was very disappointing for the G3.
I really want to keep this phone but I keep finding things that are talking me out of it. Don't be surprised if I post up a huge list of cons later... despite all the pros.
Don't be too sure that Samsung hasn't just tweaked the way the bars are displayed. Test with some tool that will give you the true signal strength Like WifiAnalyzer by farproc ti eliminate that possibility.
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trent999 said:
Don't be too sure that Samsung hasn't just tweaked the way the bars are displayed. Test with some tool that will give you the true signal strength Like WifiAnalyzer by farproc ti eliminate that possibility.
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I'll do a WiFi analyzer comparison. But the fact that the speed indicated between the GS4 and G3 are so drastically different between the phones makes me think I'm not going to be too pleased.
My max speed at home is 25 megabit so an internet speed test on the phones won't help me much since the G3 is still over 25.
Is your access point configured to run both 2.4ghz and 5ghz on the same access point name? If so is one phone managing to grab the 5ghz and the other for some reason is preferring 2.4?
I typically separate these two frequencies and run them as separate networks because of problems I have had running an access point in "shared dual mode". Specifically with certain soc's seeming to prefer 2.4ghz (which often runs slower) for some reason. The problem doesn't occur when I specifically tell it to use the 5ghz access point name instead.
I'm having this issue as well
In Wi-Fi settings, do you have "Battery saving for Wi-Fi" checked? This may tell the radio to lower its power output based on how much network throughout is needed. Try checking the link speed while transferring a large file. Also, you want this feature turned on; it will increase the life span of the radio.
I checked this afternoon with WiFi Analyzer from farproc, the G3 compared to my lady's G2.
Against my Netgear R7000 Nighthawk router, the results at different locations within my plaster-walled home were very similar, with maybe a few dB less at distance on the G2 at 2.4 ghz.
At 5 ghz, as I got further from the router, the G2 started to drop signal strength much earlier, up to 10dB worse at the far corner of the house.
Both phones were held in hand and measured by the same software at the same time. The orientation of each phone was varied during the testing as well.
I did have WiFi power saving enabled, but that was on the G3.
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b0bj0e said:
In Wi-Fi settings, do you have "Battery saving for Wi-Fi" checked? This may tell the radio to lower its power output based on how much network throughout is needed. Try checking the link speed while transferring a large file. Also, you want this feature turned on; it will increase the life span of the radio.
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Yes, that is on. (it took me awhile to find it as it's in the overflow menu).
I'll do some more tests without it just to see what happens but ultimately leave it on.
Thanks!
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Is your access point configured to run both 2.4ghz and 5ghz on the same access point name? If so is one phone managing to grab the 5ghz and the other for some reason is preferring 2.4?
I typically separate these two frequencies and run them as separate networks because of problems I have had running an access point in "shared dual mode". Specifically with certain soc's seeming to prefer 2.4ghz (which often runs slower) for some reason. The problem doesn't occur when I specifically tell it to use the 5ghz access point name instead.
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Yeah both 2.4 and 5ghz but I have different SSID's for each one.
I've been told that your devices should connect to whichever one is the strongest if you name them the same but I've often found that not to be the case so I always set them up as different names.
speed is all the really matters,
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Before root, my dwnld speeds averaged 18mb to 30mb. I'm lucky, and have LTE everywhere I go and those numbers were consistent. Since root, I can not get above 10mb. I've tried several roms and radio combinations to no avail. I would love to get back to those speeds. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
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Before root, my dwnld speeds averaged 18mb to 30mb. I'm lucky, and have LTE everywhere I go and those numbers were consistent. Since root, I can not get above 10mb. I've tried several roms and radio combinations to no avail. I would love to get back to those speeds. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
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They're probably not really slower, just dont use the speedtest.net application. Use http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/ instead.
Everyone keeps recommending the speakeasy site over the speedtest.net app. Not sure why it shows different numbers for some but they both show almost identical speeds for me (speakeasy is even a little slower at times). Maybe it depends on your location and coverage but no difference here. *shrug*
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Everyone keeps recommending the speakeasy site over the speedtest.net app. Not sure why it shows different numbers for some but they both show almost identical speeds for me (speakeasy is even a little slower at times). Maybe it depends on your location and coverage but no difference here. *shrug*
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If you try it on CM7 or any aosp rom it makes a world of difference for me at least. Download speeds are 1-5mbps on speedtest for it and 15-20 on speakeasy or just by testing through more scientific means (like using wget on a known file size, timing it and dividing out the size/time).
You realize the difference between 10mbps and 30mbps on a cell phone is completely intangible. There are no websites that even deliver content at 30mbps in the first place, aside from the speakeasy servers for testing purposes, and even if they did, you wouldnt notice the difference because the entire page layout would have already been loaded in 1 second anyway.
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You realize the difference between 10mbps and 30mbps on a cell phone is completely intangible. There are no websites that even deliver content at 30mbps in the first place, aside from the speakeasy servers for testing purposes, and even if they did, you wouldnt notice the difference because the entire page layout would have already been loaded in 1 second anyway.
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You assume we're talking about web pages. I was generally referring to large binary files handled over http. I download plenty of those from my own servers.
However, a webserver can deliver content at any speed it can handle (limited by load balancing or the max speed of a server). If you have a webpage with 100 large images on it, it's sure going to load a lot faster on LTE @ 2-4 MB/s than it would on CMDA at 300KB/s.
There are plenty of crappy wordpress and other crappy CMS sites out there that arent exactly very efficient in loading stuff either because they make too many http requests or they dont know what compression is. Either way, it'll make a difference.
another thing to keep in mind also, is the more people that sign up & get 4G the slower the network will gradually get.
even 3G used to be faster at first....
If I am getting 3 mb/s speeds on speedtest and 19 mb/s speed on speakeasy which should i believe?
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If you try it on CM7 or any aosp rom it makes a world of difference for me at least. Download speeds are 1-5mbps on speedtest for it and 15-20 on speakeasy or just by testing through more scientific means (like using wget on a known file size, timing it and dividing out the size/time).
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Yup, no difference here whatsoever. Speakeasy is actually slower than the speedtest app. Tested them back to back while sitting in the same location.
Always been this way from CM7 RC0.6 through 1.3 now on MR1, MR2, OTA MR2. That's why it always made me wonder when lots of people suggested using speakeasy.
Oh well...
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Yup, no difference here whatsoever. Speakeasy is actually slower than the speedtest app. Tested them back to back while sitting in the same location.
Always been this way from CM7 RC0.6 through 1.3 now on MR1, MR2, OTA MR2. That's why it always made me wonder when lots of people suggested using speakeasy.
Oh well...
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That's speakeasy.
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I got about the same running Cyanogenmod 7 RC1.3 27.83 Mb/s down and 3.82 Mb/s up, using the most recent Radio Leak
Think the app's are a bit misleading anyway. I ran the speedtest app on my phone and get 30mb down, then I tether to my laptop and run the same test from their website and get 7mb down.
I hate to bring back an old thread but has anyone discovered a solution to this?
Seems some Photons are finding a 3G Speed increase by a simple adjustment of settings...
I have tested this, and found it to work for me...however, NOT everyone is reporting a similar experience. So, give it a shot...and report your findings here for analysis. (My guess for the reasoning in different experiences would relate to tower proximity, etc)
The "Fix" is simple...
1. Head to "Wireless & Networks" in Settings Menu.
2. Go to "Mobile Networks"
3. Change "Network Mode" from "Any CDMA" to "Automatic"
4. Reboot
5. Test!!
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Thanks to Android Forums user prhdroid for the discovery!! Android Forums Post
interesting. Might have to give this a shot.
Mine was already on automatic.
Mine wasn't on automatic so i switched it and boom 3g where i couldn't get 3g and i work in a airport thanks.
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Went from 401 to 697! Thanks for the tip.
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I changed mine to Automatic but I didn't really notice very much difference.
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Went from ~.9 Mb/s to ~1.7 Mb/s down and ~.3 Mb/s to ~.7 Mb/s up. What I'm wondering is if it's using GSM networks now instead of CDMA and if it'll cause excessive roaming issues.
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No, I don't believe it's using GSM...or roaming. I'm not positive, but I plan on calling Sprint come Monday and asking what the feature does. There is NO warning prompt indicating that you will be roaming...so I doubt they could force roaming charges on anyone.
Just gave it a try. 1.84Mbps for 3G before and after but 4G dropped fro, 4.53 down to just 0.55 in Automatic. Returning to "Any CDMA" brought it back up.
I did this fix and it did work, but I have found that in my area, due to population, that my speeds can barely break 600k, but when I ran out to a few other remote locals I was pulling 1.6m+. So this clearly works and I love the speeds in the remote area, but the area I live and work in really suck.
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Went from ~.9 Mb/s to ~1.7 Mb/s down and ~.3 Mb/s to ~.7 Mb/s up. What I'm wondering is if it's using GSM networks now instead of CDMA and if it'll cause excessive roaming issues.
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nope its still cdma, just grabbing the strongest signal instead of focusing on a Sprint signal. Should not effect you roaming charges at all
I noticed another positive side effect of this. Way faster connecting speed. It would take forever to even start loading a page on any cdma and now it starts instantly.
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You Guys Might want to Try Removing the Sprint Proxys. My coworker was unable to stream pandora, and had a general overall slowness of web browsing. We did the following.
1. Get MSL Code
2. Dial ##data# in the phone
3. Go into mulitmedia
4. We upped the buffer to 10
5. Set the ports to 0
6. Set the addresses to 0.0.0.0
Rebooted and all his streaming issues were resolved adn market and web seemed to load faster (he has been struggling with streaming issues for over a week)
ok so could this be too good to be true?
seems like there must be some downside.. are we more likely to drop connections if we're constantly hopping networks?
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Hmmm... didnt work for me. First two download passes were 1.1m them 900k. Changed the setting to automatic and got 172k and 200k. I'll set back to any CDMA and try again in the morning at work.
Thx
The first method doubled my speeds and gave me 25% of the ping.
removing proxys solved my shoutcast radio streaming problem
Thanks for the tip. Increased from 1.3mbps/384kbps to 1.8-1.9mbps/600-800kbps
Will try the MLS trick next
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Thanks for the tip. Increased from 1.3mbps/384kbps to 1.8-1.9mbps/600-800kbps
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Dang dude. Share some of that love. I wish i got 1.3 over wifi. LOL.
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You Guys Might want to Try Removing the Sprint Proxys. My coworker was unable to stream pandora, and had a general overall slowness of web browsing. We did the following.
1. Get MSL Code
2. Dial ##data# in the phone
3. Go into mulitmedia
4. We upped the buffer to 10
5. Set the ports to 0
6. Set the addresses to 0.0.0.0
Rebooted and all his streaming issues were resolved adn market and web seemed to load faster (he has been struggling with streaming issues for over a week)
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If im not mistaken i think this breaks the sprint apps from working ie. sprint tv and sprint music.
No it doesn't mine all work fine never better
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Thought I'd share my tests for bandwidth, bluetooth and GPS using them with various test scenarios and comparisons.
Background info: I bought the Prime last week at Best Buy. I pretty much pulled it out of the box and ran all the OTA updates, so I have ICS and it's got the latest updates. Not rooted.
Serial: BCOKAS11**** (Gray, 32 GB)
Network: Ran the test at my house. I'm probably hitting my upload bandwidth on all the tests, so it may not be the best test for upload bandwidth. My average bandwidth on a computer is about 11.8 mbps down, 1.7 mbps up. I only run G Wifi at my house. I have an older N router, but it slows down my network overall... so I have it disabled.
The Speed test image below are the following scenarios (pictured from top to bottom):
- Wifi, GPS, bluetooth earpiece paired using Google Music
- Wifi, bluetooth earpiece paired using Google Music
- Wifi, GPS, bluetooth on
- Wifi and GPS
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As you can see, BT streaming kills about half of the bandwidth from wifi. This isn't great, but I can live with that.
Next test are for GPS. Sorry the pics are so big, I'll try to fix that later. These were done outside my house in a Michigan suburb with GPS Test and are picture in the following order (you can tell by the icons in the dock):
- All Radios on, connected to my Wifi network, Bluetooth using Google Music
- Wifi on connected to network and GPS on
- GPS only on
It took less than a minute to start picking up satellites, but no where near as fast as my phone. I am not too familiar with these read-outs.
I'm clearly picking up some GPS satellites outside. I seemed to be able to get some signal in my house.
Overall, I pretty happy with the tablet. It does have a few bugs that could be related to ICS like the slow browser issue and some FCs. I don't have any light bleeding, but my eye aren't that great either. I was really worried about this thing after everything I've read on here, but I think I must have got the keeper model.
I'm new to xda, so throw me a 'thanks' if this helps you! Thanks!
Links to your pictures dont work, guessing they are not in the public section of dropbox
Argh... standby. Guess that's why I'm still a 'Junior Member'.
dabbill said:
Links to your pictures dont work, guessing they are not in the public section of dropbox
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Can you see them now? It blew up the ones of the GPS screens after I did that. They weren't that big originally. Thanks for pointing it out.
I have the same tablet 32gb grey and mine is also BCOKAS11XXXX like yours.
Mine is perfect except wifi the wifi/bt issue.
So this batch is good , and mine confirms that the wifi/bt problem is hw related.
I'm afraid no firmware update will solve that, but I still hope.
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I'm afraid no firmware update will solve that, but I still hope.
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I heard that the same problem exists on cell phones, but I've never tried that for comparison.
Very weak signal compared to other devices, and this has come up a million times, yes it works. Yes it has a very weak signal.
JoeyLe said:
Very weak signal compared to other devices, and this has come up a million times, yes it works. Yes it has a very weak signal.
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Well, there are a lot of posts where people say they can't get a signal at all. So, I was just sharing my results with the serial numer I have since that seems to be trending info on the forum.
teknomar7 said:
Well, there are a lot of posts where people say they can't get a signal at all. So, I was just sharing my results with the serial numer I have since that seems to be trending info on the forum.
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Well yes, I agree it is working and usable for lets say photo tagging (in open air) or something but for example driving it most of the time will not work. But still it looks like you're lucky with your unit!
BTW: This is from the Galaxy S II
Can you tell me what the giant '0' is for on the GPS Test app? One test I ran had a '2'.
But yes, you definitely have more strength. I'm not implying its an amazing GPS device... but it's functional. It got my position to around 50 ft from every test according to the app.
Can we do some runs with WiFi please on a new C1 prime? I'd like to see a 250MB file transfer on a 2.5GHz N router connected to a ethernet wired PC and the transfer speeds associated with that transfer from various distanced.
I think what is happening is that people are reporting good Wifi using Speedtest because their DSL/Cable only goes as high as ~15mbps
For example, when I had both of my primes, my wifi was AWESOME with regards to Speedtests because my DSL line with verizon was only 7.1mbps down/768kbps up.
I never checked the LAN speed which would have accurately tested the maximum capability of my route/prime.
Who can help?
Pubnum said:
I think what is happening is that people are reporting good Wifi using Speedtest because their DSL/Cable only goes as high as ~15mbps
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Well, I only pay for 12 Mbps down at my house. And that's still faster than any free wifi I would be connecting to anywhere (or my phone). I could test at a friend's apartment... I think he gets around 35 down and 6 up on an N router. He has the fastest internet out of the people I know. Providers are kinda limited / expensive in Michigan because they are different in each city.
If I stop at his apartment this weekend, I'll take my Prime.
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Can you tell me what the giant '0' is for on the GPS Test app? One test I ran had a '2'.
But yes, you definitely have more strength. I'm not implying its an amazing GPS device... but it's functional. It got my position to around 50 ft from every test according to the app.
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Not my picture by the way, I'm not sure what that means, maybe someone else?
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Not my picture by the way, I'm not sure what that means, maybe someone else?
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Ah. I thought you just ran that test and posted the pic from the S2.
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Ah. I thought you just ran that test and posted the pic from the S2.
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Nope, I found it online. I can however see what my HTC Sensation does, that one also has a partly aluminium back cover.
JoeyLe said:
Nope, I found it online. I can however see what my HTC Sensation does, that one also has a partly aluminium back cover.
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Ha. I have the same phone. I will probably test it out later today out of curiosity... better comparison to test in the same location I did the Prime.
P.S. I'm rooted using the DarkForest ICS Sensation ROM... Version 5.1 flys and the hotspot functionality works.
*edit... with O/C kernel too.
teknomar7 said:
Can you tell me what the giant '0' is for on the GPS Test app? One test I ran had a '2'.
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Ended up figuring this out. It's the MPH. Changes if you move around.
I just got my S3 today and it has been great so far save for one issue. I seem to be experiencing really bad WiFi performance. I ran a speed test using the speedtest.net app on my iPhone 4 and got around 8 megabits per second down. However, when I ran the same test on my S3, I got about 1 megabit per second down consistently between numerous tests.
I don't have this issue while using LTE, which makes me think that it is a problem with the WiFi antenna. Is anyone else experiencing this issue?
Thanks
Mine runs perfect on both 2.4ghz and 5ghz bands through wifi.
Getting 30Mbits down and 22Mbits up.
does this happen on when connected to any wifi? or just particular one?
Make sure your phone is not on Power Save mode.
caveman999 said:
I just got my S3 today and it has been great so far save for one issue. I seem to be experiencing really bad WiFi performance. I ran a speed test using the speedtest.net app on my iPhone 4 and got around 8 megabits per second down. However, when I ran the same test on my S3, I got about 1 megabit per second down consistently between numerous tests.
I don't have this issue while using LTE, which makes me think that it is a problem with the WiFi antenna. Is anyone else experiencing this issue?
Thanks
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Try forcing the WIFI to 2.4GHZ and see if that improves things
TranceMission18 said:
Mine runs perfect on both 2.4ghz and 5ghz bands through wifi.
Getting 30Mbits down and 22Mbits up.
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Well, I have tested and yes you can get great speeds via the wifi, however something is quite wrong with it too, see my bug post in this subforum.
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I have my wifi forced to 5GHz and just now at work I got 49ms ping 33449kbps down and 38990kbps up to a server that is ~200 miles away. Seems to be working fine to me
I have the same issue. It's not as fast as my s2 on WiFi.also sometimes it loses signal and the WiFi turns off by itself and then on. It's really weird
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Thanks for all the suggestions. It might have just been a temporary thing because I wiped the cache on my phone using the default recovery, rebooted the phone a few times and now its fine.
I'll keep testing it to check if this issue comes back, but ad of now I'm just glad that it is working now.
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Make sure your phone is not on Power Save mode.
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That made a HUGE difference for me. From 5mbit/s to 50mbit/s downstream. THANK YOU.
I've had issues also with it "re-initiating wifi" after waking, even though set to keep wifi always... feel like this is truly a bug. Dropping wifi frequently...
Same issue with wifi. I also notice a difference every time as well if I single handly hold the phone back case mid section or higher. Bars go from 4 to 2 or 1. Then back to 4 if I move my hand and palm below the buttons.
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That made a HUGE difference for me. From 5mbit/s to 50mbit/s downstream. THANK YOU.
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I take that back, now I'm getting 10mbit/s down when my laptop does 50mbit/s down shortly after. Tried a few more times, same results. Something is not right with WiFi on this device. It lost 5gHz signal when i stepped outside, not more than 10m from the base station.
ormandj said:
I take that back, now I'm getting 10mbit/s down when my laptop does 50mbit/s down shortly after. Tried a few more times, same results. Something is not right with WiFi on this device. It lost 5gHz signal when i stepped outside, not more than 10m from the base station.
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Yeah, I have continued to test the wifi on the phone and I am getting inconsistent performance. I hope this can be fixed in a software update and isn't a hardware defect.
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we had a few galaxy nexus phones in our office that had horrible wifi performance/signal. i believe that device used the BCM4330 chipset.. which is odd, because my 4s has that same chip (i believe) and the wifi performance/range is great - can anyone confirm what the S3 uses?
Mines keep disconnecting and reconnecting
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I posted this in another wifi complaint thread. I don't know if anyone has tried.
I had this problem on my Captivate. It was not very obvious, because the disconnects were so brief. I discovered while working with some Tasker WiFi settings.
The fix was to set my phone to use static addresses. You can use WiFi Static in order to achieve static addresses only where you want. I am using this on my S3, so I don't know if I would have problems without it.
I'd be curious to know if this helps anyone.
My wifi keeps disconnecting and it's driving me crazy anyone have a solution?
Not at all. In fact, when I ran tests against my iPhone 4S my Galaxy S3 on WiFi got faster data speeds every time.
Wifi problem went away for me. Although I know for a fact it's not as fast as it should be.. I'm going to double check my router to make sure
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Hello, I have been thinking about how to automate the use of 2g and 3g. Now to switch from one to another must go to settings and change it manually etc etc, google dont allow to do direcly otherwise there is not widgets or anything
As you know, 3g is much faster but it takes a lot of baterry, while 2g is slow but it doesnt waste too much battery, so for example when I turn screen off I prefer to be connected in 2g, or for example when my battery is <20€, or whenever I want.
I found this app
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=739530
But is only compatible with Cyanogen. I would want to get this working on our Roms or on our stock firms. There says there is a possibility but we would have to resign the rom or something, I dont understand very well what do they mean. I would try but is a risk because If goes wrong Im gonna lose everything and Im not very experimented with this, has anyone here tried this? Works on stock ICS with locked bootloader? How do we could do?
Thankss
Tasker.
juice defender
You cant do it with tasker
Juice defender as I know neither
sigh... the 3g/2g myth again, during STANDBY both use a STUNNING 0.4W...
The SXS uses less battery on 3G than in 2G :silly:
There is nothing you can't do with tasker!
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android doesnt allow programatically switching between 2g and 3g. Thats the reason why most of the switching apps just work as a shortcut to the settings page.
There are workarounds that are employed by juce defender and tasker and probably some other apps too but they only work on certain roms, usually AOSP or Cyanogen derivitives.
SnowOokami said:
sigh... the 3g/2g myth again, during STANDBY both use a STUNNING 0.4W...
The SXS uses less battery on 3G than in 2G :silly:
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Sorry, it might be a myth for you but practically, with the same use; my battery last about 24 hours with 3G always activated and about 3,5 days with 2G activated. It's a fact... But It might be linked to differences between 2G and 3G network cover and quality... I don't know.
Set your phone @ 3g only :angel:
but yes... it has most likely to do with 2g/3g switching
Yeah I know that android doesnt allow switching it automatically, I know there are methods that only work in Cyanogen, thats why I open this thread, lets see If we can find a solution for our stock firm Xperia S
As I said we have it here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=739530 But I have not idea of how to proceed xD
This mod work on my Neo 2g/2g+3g/3g, but need some edits to work on XS...
Just side track, Nokia asha 300 uses 2g on standby, only when traffic exceed certain amount, it changes to 3g, and once you close the browser, it returns to 2g. Quite amazing though
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I think all Nokias did it since Symbian 6 or something.
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Sorry, it might be a myth for you but practically, with the same use; my battery last about 24 hours with 3G always activated and about 3,5 days with 2G activated. It's a fact... But It might be linked to differences between 2G and 3G network cover and quality... I don't know.
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If you are getting over 3 days then you must never ever turn the screen on or do anything with the phone.
anyone is interested about getting this feature? I have investigate about re-signing our firm to make it compatible with the Mod, but they talk about resigning .zip flasheable files while we use ftf files. Maybe there is no way to get this mod in our stock firms, or it could be only compatible with custom Roms which are installed through recovery with zips
any idea, any experimented user who wants to involve here?
um.....am i being slow? or does this option not already exist? wcdma preferred/gsm......that just swtches between the two depending on what's available?
Depending on your netwerk operator there shouldn't be a big difference in 2G vs 3G battery use. The XPERIA S supports fast dormancy, which will reduce power usage while connected to 3G. XDA-TV has an item about this subject.
Long story short, it isn't really necessary unless your operators coverage is bad. Then it would be smart to keeping on 2G.
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I couldnt find an app either. One simple work around though. After selecting GSM/WCDMA mode, press the home button. The rule is to keep the current settings page in background. Switch it as and when necessary. Simple, not a concrete one though!
According to Sony the standby battery life is nearly double when using 3G in standby so not sure why you'd want to do this.
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For example where I work is a poor coverage on 3G (it's inside a factory). When forced on 2G I have 1 and half day more battery. The problem appear because phone try to stay more on 3G, if the 3G is poor or zero than is switch on 2G (if exist). These switches drain the batt. So I force on 2G and when I need internet connection I set on 3G only and I activate data. For that reason a switch 2g/3g in toggle is very usefull (I have it on my Neo but I want on my new SXP too).