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Old 02-21-2012, 09:49 PM
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Wow! this thread is amazing. I see that these issues are also seen with the Nexus S and the Galaxy S II? It seems to me that this is BAD Samsung build materials. From reading other high end Samsung forums, these are awesome computers but awful phones. Is the general thought that if you stay on CDMA only, the signal problems are not as bad?
I didnt think to check for other recent Samsung phone and reception issues....wow. I thought the Galaxy S 2 was thee perfect Android phone?

If that really is the case....Samsung and weak reception has been following them from the old Win Mo days, regular cell phone days... I had 2 Samsungs before Android even came out, but I always try to give the benefit of the doubt, try not to judge based on past experiences.

Its one reason why I went out and actually got a G Nex just to see if most of this stuff was true. In my limited experience with the G Nex....for the most part it is true. It just wasnt as strong for reception as 2 phones I compared it to.

Those that got a good working one, great. Those that dont spend most of their time in weak, bad reception areas...great. They also make great TV's...lol.
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Old 02-22-2012, 04:51 AM
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and fridges...I have a samsung fridge

But I was skeptical of buying a samsung phone after the old days of friends buying them while I had LG/ motorola flip phones.

The Nexus is a good phone, but I see my Incredible on the shelf and am tempted.....

Dare I say who to trust anymore with these phones? HTC with it's sense bloatware and black slab form factor all the time? fine at first but gets boring after a month. Motorola and their crazy wide design? Samsung and poor signal strength? Heck my kids' ipods vibrate louder then this device.

The fact that cases etc are being redesigned because of design changes to the device last minute makes me weary too.
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My signal issues persist, going to go in and see if I can get a new SIM card to try. If that doesn't work, I'll get it swapped for a new phone. Will report back with my findings.

Edit: Actually, haven't had any issues today, after a SIM/battery pull last night. I'll give it more thorough testing this weekend, but I'll hold off going in as of now.
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I switched to Verizon today 2/24 and bought the Samsung Nexus the phone could not hold a signal, data or voice for more than 2 min. It would go to 4G solid to nothing.

I got it home thinking that it would sort it self out. It didn't. So I called Verizon Tech support. Tier 2 could "see" that my phone was connecting to the network and then disconnecting from the network every min or so. We did a factory rest and even tried running it in safe mode thinking it was an app that was causing problems. Nothing worked


I took the phone back to the store and did a swap. I now have ZERO issues and I am sitting here in my home next to my computer with full 4g bars.


I don't know if this is the issue some are having but I surely did get a bad phone the first time around. Even the sales rep saw what the phone was doing. It was like it was cycling connect/disconnect every min.

New phone no issues.
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My tech guy didn't say a whole lot. He asked if I'd done a SIM/battery pull before, and I had but it never really helped. I did one after I got off the phone with him and it seemed to really help for about 24 hours. I started having problems with data connectability a couple hours ago, so I'm going to head off to Verizon tomorrow.

New SIM card didn't help one bit. Going to Costco after work to hopefully get a new phone.
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Old 02-28-2012, 09:06 AM
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Big red is calling back tomorrow.
I am going from 2 bars 4g to zero bars at all, then back to 2 bars 3g then down to nothing.
I now have to unroot, etc....

That is the PITA part for when the replacement comes.
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Old 02-29-2012, 07:49 AM
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Washington, DC - Stock Galaxy Nexus - Great 4G Signal, Fantastic Speeds, Extremely High Voice Clarity

According to the speedtest.net app:

Download: 34.31Mbps
Upload: 13.18Mbps
Ping: 105ms
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I tested the LTE signal on my Nexus against a guy using a Razr. He beat me by several Mbps. The guys a bit of a dou-che so it was particularly painful to watch. I'm hoping for the OTA soon so I can beat him in a rematch.
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The overall signal on the Galaxy Nexus does seem to be low on 4.0.2. I am getting 1 bar when I should have 3 and zero bars when I should have at least 1. However, with zero bars and a signal of about -120dbm I can stil send text messages use the phone. The signal makes the phone appear much worse than it actually is.

I am hoping they really address this in the next update.
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I tested the LTE signal on my Nexus against a guy using a Razr. He beat me by several Mbps. The guys a bit of a dou-che so it was particularly painful to watch. I'm hoping for the OTA soon so I can beat him in a rematch.
Does the Razr show the signal strength for 4G LTE?


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