So here's a question for you all. For the past several months I've worked in a government building in Washington, DC where I get next to no reception on my Nexus 4 with T-Mobile (the signal goes back and forth between No Service and 0-1 bars of edge). It really seems to me like this is causing the phone's radio to degrade to where I get poorer service even when I'm in a strong signal area.
This makes a little intuitive sense to me. We know the strain of constantly looking for a signal runs down the battery, so the radio is doing something, and whether that's causing it to heat up and wear out or something else, I'm seeing noticeably reduced performance. My data speeds are considerably slower than they were in March/April (possibly attributable to increased load on T-Mo's network in DC, but I'd be surprised if it were to this extent); and more importantly, the phone loses signal much more easily and takes FOREVER to regain it. When I go outside my building (a very strong service area in downtown DC) it routinely takes several minutes to find the network, and then another couple minutes after that to go from gray to blue as it finds Google services. Rebooting or cycling airplane mode sometimes helps this, but I think having a phone that doesn't work for 5 minutes after you leave a no-service zone is not really that useful.
Any thoughts on this? I can't put the phone on airplane mode during the day because I do receive calls and texts that I have to be notified of (even if it's on a delay). I've started setting it to use 2g networks only while at work, but it's too early to see if that's helping. Thanks in advance.
This makes a little intuitive sense to me. We know the strain of constantly looking for a signal runs down the battery, so the radio is doing something, and whether that's causing it to heat up and wear out or something else, I'm seeing noticeably reduced performance. My data speeds are considerably slower than they were in March/April (possibly attributable to increased load on T-Mo's network in DC, but I'd be surprised if it were to this extent); and more importantly, the phone loses signal much more easily and takes FOREVER to regain it. When I go outside my building (a very strong service area in downtown DC) it routinely takes several minutes to find the network, and then another couple minutes after that to go from gray to blue as it finds Google services. Rebooting or cycling airplane mode sometimes helps this, but I think having a phone that doesn't work for 5 minutes after you leave a no-service zone is not really that useful.
Any thoughts on this? I can't put the phone on airplane mode during the day because I do receive calls and texts that I have to be notified of (even if it's on a delay). I've started setting it to use 2g networks only while at work, but it's too early to see if that's helping. Thanks in advance.