Do you really experience signal issue with your GN?

[lcsglvr]

am i missing something? Of course sig will vary on 3g 4g. Take a look at the coverage maps. The handoff will obviously be more clunky from 4g to 3g freq... I live in dc and have had no connection to 4g or call issues

 

[acmorris]

Guys just got my GNex this past Friday and had it activated and was waiting for this outage to be over with. Been sick with a terrible cold as of lately so I was bored and had my wife to get me a small ziplock bag to put my phone in to keep germ free sort of.

I notice antenna-gate was mentioned in this thread briefly so I thought I would do an experiment yesterday with the phone since mine signal was bouncing alot between -93/-120 dBm and I was bored. This test is unscientifical and probably proves nothing. With the phone in the bag and holding all with right hand I decided to run speedtests. One thing I did notice that holding the phone completely in my hand the tests yeilded slower speeds, but I did notice was that while running the speedtests about 3/4 of the way thru the tests is that if I would take the phone in bag and hold it up with just my 2 fingers going from being in my hand the speeds increased 1-2 MB.

Yes like many others I have signal problems as well. I also live in a fringe area that effects my devices differently. I have a Rezound/TB and both do receive slight better signal to help with these questions on signal dBm. Atleast for me in my area TB/Rezound work for me, but it did not come without a cost.

 

[monsterman83]

i have noticed recently that when the phone is doing 1x i have zero data connection. how can that be? my og droid always had data on 1x. it was just very slow.

 

[MBSMD]

At home my GNex shows a signal strength of -93 dBm. Another phone made by a certain fruit company gets -87 dBm at home in exactly the same location.

 

[max pl]

At home my GNex shows a signal strength of -93 dBm. Another phone made by a certain fruit company gets -87 dBm at home in exactly the same location.

i noticed the same thing.
upon moving them to a new spot, however, the Nexus had a slightly higher dbm.

 

[dmmarck]

I haven't measured anything scientifically, but based upon the ole "I can use it" test, it's meeting or exceeding the signal strength of my ole Dinc.

 

[junglesnake98]

I used the phone for several days and I also have 2 iPhones in the house and the signal issues are terrible and very noticeable! Way more thn a few db's, more like 15 or so in my case. I had to return the phone because of his issue which I hated because I love the look and feel of the phone but it's just not what it should be IMO for he money it costs. I ended up buying a rezound and it's a great phone so far. Great screen and good running device. I hope they get the nexus squared away because the phone has great potential!!

 

[Premium1]

I used the phone for several days and I also have 2 iPhones in the house and the signal issues are terrible and very noticeable! Way more thn a few db's, more like 15 or so in my case. I had to return the phone because of his issue which I hated because I love the look and feel of the phone but it's just not what it should be IMO for he money it costs. I ended up buying a rezound and it's a great phone so far. Great screen and good running device. I hope they get the nexus squared away because the phone has great potential!!

So other than having a higher dbm did the phone not work or are you one of those who returned it because the number was a little higher yet it still worked like the other phones?

 

[Droid800]

So other than having a higher dbm did the phone not work or are you one of those who returned it because the number was a little higher yet it still worked like the other phones?

If he returned it so quickly it's the latter.


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[ohiomoto]

So, after 2 weeks of spotty service with the GN I decided to re-flash stock 4.0.2 before exchanging it for another unit. After 2 days of use, my initial impression is that it FIXED my reception issues. The phone now appears to be performing on par with my old phone and 4g appears to be handing off to 3g as it should. While driving on family trip yesterday the GN lost data just once and I was able to confirm that my wife's Fascinate lost service as well. The rest of the time it was seamlessly using both 3 and 4g.

I'm going to see how it works the rest of the week. Hopefully it continues to impress.

 

[rokstarr]

Without sifting through 25 pages of comments in this thread.... I have noticed that when I check in the battery stats where everyone sees the different color bar for signal... mine was always showing a pale yellowish/greyish color no matter where I am. I am currently at work right now and literally sitting right next to a tower but getting the same. signal is -86 dbm showing 3 bars, 4G. I usually always keep WIFI on... rarely, if ever, do I turn it off. My coworker who sits right next to me shows a whole bunch of green on his phone's battery stats for signal but I know he turns off WIFI when not at home. I just tried a little experiment and turned off WIFI, pulled battery/SIM card for a few mins, power up and let it sit for a while. I just looked at my battery states and I see green in the bar for the first time, ever. It shows when I popped the battery and ever since then, green color. Signal is still at -86 dbm and 3 bars, 4G. Very strange... but I do know that the WIFI radio can interfere slightly... I wonder if that may be part of some of the weird signal strength/reporting issues with this phone.

 

[thebignewt]

So what you're saying is that the signal strength and the bars didn't change, just the signal color, after the battery pull? I don't think that was the original complaint of this thread, which was dropped calls and data.

 

[thebignewt]

I just installed the 4.03 radios. I look forward to seeing how they impact the phone. It is really easy to install these radios and just as easy to go back to the 4.02 radios if they don''t work. I have never flashed anything on my phone before this, just so you know where I'm coming from.

How do you install that?

 

[rbess1965]

I think Bluetooth will interfere with it also. I know it interferes with data on my Charge. When traveling through an area that drops data as it tries to regain it, I've found that turning of my Bluetooth connection allows the data signal to regain strength. Not sure if this works for everyone but interested in hearing for others on this.

 

[rokstarr]

So what you're saying is that the signal strength and the bars didn't change, just the signal color, after the battery pull? I don't think that was the original complaint of this thread, which was dropped calls and data.

No, im not saying that at all. What I was getting at is that WIFI may be interfering with how the signal is reporting both in dbm and on the color scale that everyone is posting screen shots of. People were saying, "wow, all those people with green signal I'm jealous of.." etc etc... or "I only see yellow or red and maybe some other variations of colors.." etc etc. Ever since I turned WIFI off, I now see the green on my battery stats page for the majority of the time in the same location however, my dbm is the same at -86 and 3 bars, 4G... or -85 and 4 bars, 4G. I'm wondering if the reporting of the colors is messed up or super sensitive that the slight WIFI interference is actually causing it to look like worse signal than it really is. Or.. on the flip side of that, may be actually interfering enough to cause data drop outs. I do experience that but I haven't been anywhere today other than my desk at work so I can't really see if its holding data better with WIFI off as opposed to having it on and not connected to anything. Can anyone chime in on their experience with having WIFI turned on but not connected as opposed to it being OFF in relation to how much trouble they experience and/or colors of signal in battery stats?

 

[clicq0]

I've been following this thread with great interest -- this is not only my first Android phone, but my first time on verizon, so I don't have any baseline to compare against.

I saw a few people posted about the phone dropping the connection and then, when switching into airplane mode, it gets stuck and requires a reboot. Is this normal? (in other words, will exchanging the phone solve the problem?)

I have been traveling a lot the past few days, and I seem to have this problem at least once a day while traveling, but I've never experienced it if I stay in the same place. I usually notice it when I can't get a data connection (3g or 4g), and then if I try to make a call, it won't complete and the dialer app will basically get stuck -- it will think it's on a call, but it's not, and I can't hang up. In this state, the phone won't switch to airplane mode -- it will try, but the airplane mode indicator never shows up, I can't get out of airplane mode, and I basically have to reboot the phone. I always have a connection after rebooting the phone though.

I suspect the radio is hanging for some reason or another, but I don't know if it's my particular phone or some software issue...

EDIT: Just got off the phone with VZW tech support... and aside from checking some settings on my account, they just told me to reboot the phone when the problem happens

EDIT: I've attached a screenshot of the state of the phone when this happens. Note that the phone thinks it's in airplane mode (and the toggle is grayed out), yet has (what it thinks) is an active call as well as 1 bar of signal.

 

[pauldroidr2d2]

I've been following this thread with great interest -- this is not only my first Android phone, but my first time on verizon, so I don't have any baseline to compare against.

I saw a few people posted about the phone dropping the connection and then, when switching into airplane mode, it gets stuck and requires a reboot. Is this normal? (in other words, will exchanging the phone solve the problem?)

I have been traveling a lot the past few days, and I seem to have this problem at least once a day while traveling, but I've never experienced it if I stay in the same place. I usually notice it when I can't get a data connection (3g or 4g), and then if I try to make a call, it won't complete and the dialer app will basically get stuck -- it will think it's on a call, but it's not, and I can't hang up. In this state, the phone won't switch to airplane mode -- it will try, but the airplane mode indicator never shows up, I can't get out of airplane mode, and I basically have to reboot the phone. I always have a connection after rebooting the phone though.

I suspect the radio is hanging for some reason or another, but I don't know if it's my particular phone or some software issue...

My signal issues seem to be improving overall.

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[monsterman83]

clicq0, I sometimes see that when switching from airplane mode back to 4/3g and in my case it does go away and the 4/3g does come back up it just sake up to a minute sometimes. It normally will take longer If I do the toggle often. If you haven't waiting a couple minutes for the bars to come back up try it. maybe its just connecting to the tower slowly.

 

[clicq0]

clicq0, I sometimes see that when switching from airplane mode back to 4/3g and in my case it does go away and the 4/3g does come back up it just sake up to a minute sometimes. It normally will take longer If I do the toggle often. If you haven't waiting a couple minutes for the bars to come back up try it. maybe its just connecting to the tower slowly.

Thanks for replying! The problem is that I can't disable airplane mode when my phone gets into that state . Normally I have no problem switching in and out of airplane mode... it's starting to sound like I've got a bum phone...

 

[pauldroidr2d2]

Thanks for replying! The problem is that I can't disable airplane mode when my phone gets into that state . Normally I have no problem switching in and out of airplane mode... it's starting to sound like I've got a bum phone...

Have you tried doing a reset? Maybe you have an app that is creating the problem you are experiencing.

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