Galaxy S6 Cell Reception Problems?

[KelseyRo4]

My service has been horrible. I have verizon, and at home I get 1 bar. That's it! I drove right past verizon the other day and still barely had service this combined with my horrible battery life is really killing my love for the phone

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[KelseyRo4]

anything around 100-ish dBm or below is still considered pretty decent so I wouldn't consider it "broken" or not within acceptable specs, but yes I see your point, it's not as good as 67 dBm

Mine is on 114

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[syspry]

Mine is on 114

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On its own, that's not terrible. If you were outdoors and know you're in a normally strong signal area for your carrier and still pulling 114 than I'd be dissatisfied.

 

[KelseyRo4]

I am lol that's why I'm upset. I've had horrible service even in areas where I used to have full reception with my iphone. I'm starting to miss it

 

[revoman]

Holy crud in a can. I changed my mode from Global to "LTE/CDMA" and my bars immediately went from 1 to 3. Thank you friendly android user helper person!

 

[Almeuit]

I am lol that's why I'm upset. I've had horrible service even in areas where I used to have full reception with my iphone. I'm starting to miss it

Holy crud in a can. I changed my mode from Global to "LTE/CDMA" and my bars immediately went from 1 to 3. Thank you friendly android user helper person!

Kelsey try this on your Verizon S6 and see if it helps. That would be great if that was the fix .. quick and easy! .

 

[jeffmurph004]

I have sprint and was seeing 0 to 1 bars everywhere, and I live in coastal Fairfield county in Connecticut where service is not an issue. So an update came along which my phone would not download, the work around is to download Samsung Smart Switch on your computer and phone which will push the update over. That 'fix' did nothing. The only way I could boost signal strength was to switch from LTE/CDMA to CDMA only. So I had to sacrifice 4g for usable service. At least now I could hold a call without it dropping, ughh.

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[KelseyRo4]

Kelsey try this on your Verizon S6 and see if it helps. That would be great if that was the fix .. quick and easy! .

That was the first thing I did. I noticed that all day I only had 3G and two bars where I would normally have 4G and about 4 bars of service, so I contacted Verizon and they told me to turn off my phone so that they could send a software update to my phone because for whatever reason it didn't do it on its own. After it finished I finally got 4G back.

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[Susana Huggins]

I get horrible cell reception on my new Galaxy s6. So far, I have been really disappointed with the battery life and cellphone reception. Is there anything that can be done to improve these issues? Does anyone know? :-\

 

[AlphaTango414]

Battery life is more than likely partly do to bad cell reception. I get horrible cell reception at my house and phone won't see over 14 hours with 2 hours SOT. At my girlfriends and during work I can go 1.5 days with 4hrs SOT on a single charge.

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[Bryan Cruse]

Have you ever seen a 1X when making or receiving a call?

I've figured out the 1x. Go to your settings and then go to advanced calling and switch that on. That helped me get 4g during a call.

 

[makaroni]

I have this problem now ever since I did the Verizon update. My service has gotten worse. Places I've had 4G LTE now I have 1x which is horrible. Maybe your phone was already updated when you got it. Just a guess

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[Bryan Cruse]

Did anyone take the update and it fix the signal problem? I really don't want to lose root after the update but I'll take it if my signal will be better....

 

[KelseyRo4]

Battery life is more than likely partly do to bad cell reception. I get horrible cell reception at my house and phone won't see over 14 hours with 2 hours SOT. At my girlfriends and during work I can go 1.5 days with 4hrs SOT on a single charge.

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Yea I noticed that my battery drains faster when I'm at home and I have horrible service at home

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[Jamez Avila]

Verizon is your problem. I have the S6 with AT&T and always have strong LTE signal even in remote places between major cities.

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[Bryan Cruse]

Verizon is your problem. I have the S6 with AT&T and always have strong LTE signal even in remote places between major cities.

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On my s5 with verizon I have 4 bars of lte but with the s6 it's one with verizon

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[drone3]

I have been getting regular missed calls, where it doesn't even ring, just goes straight to message bank. Reception likely the issue as my HTC M7 with the same provider never had this issue.

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[drone3]

Just turned off 4g and boom 4 bars of reception. Will see how it goes.

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[KelseyRo4]

Just turned off 4g and boom 4 bars of reception. Will see how it goes.

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How?

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[drone3]

How?

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On the Australian firmware its Settings /Mobile Networks / Network Mode /WCDMA/GSM

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