Now who wants to buy my collection of cases and extended battery??
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Are Samsung radios bad? I wouldn't know cause I have a nexus 4( full bars at home btw)
Just as I had hoped, the replacement Moto Razr Maxx HD replaced by Verizon solved the 8 month "is the other guys fault" "its your house " blah blah. The radio on this phone had made a huge improvement. Night n day. Samsung offered to replace" conflicting parts", but I was done. I'll miss the larger real estate, but i need a phone to be a phone, first and foremost.
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Correct me if I'm wrong.. But 4g/3g data has little to nothing to do with calls? I think 1g is for calls
Just as I had hoped, the replacement Moto Razr Maxx HD replaced by Verizon solved the 8 month "is the other guys fault" "its your house " blah blah. The radio on this phone had made a huge improvement. Night n day. Samsung offered to replace" conflicting parts", but I was done. I'll miss the larger real estate, but i need a phone to be a phone, first and foremost.
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That's no way to take readings, but if the phone works better, good to go.In the same spot in my house at the exact same time, the MAXX HD's 4G reception was consistently about 8-10 db stronger than the other two phones.
Yeah, that is true. voice/sms/mms use the "1X" technology, where mobile data is the 1XEV (3G) or LTE (4G).
Normally, I hate posts like this -- I was expecting it to be another "leave flaming bag of poo and run away" kind of post that most of the ones with title like this tend to be. I was pleasantly surprised to see an actual civil thread about a legit issue that the OP is still participating in.
For the record, I live in a VERY good area for Verizon coverage. I've had no issues whatsoever with dropped calls, and normally have 4G almost everywhere I go...but having said that, this phone gets some of the worse reception of any I've used in quite a while on Verizon. Data starts to get real flaky real fast once I get into a "fringe" area or I am inside buildings with bad reception. Granted, I can accept and deal with the fact that those things happen, but it upsets me when my friends/coworkers who also have Verizon phones get strong signals while I'm sitting there with no bars and no data signal to be found.
For me, it's not bad enough to want to get a different device, but it is definitely something I've noticed. If the S4 improves only 1 thing, I sure hope it's the radio...
That's no way to take readings, but if the phone works better, good to go.
The phones are capable of giving you a "relative" reading. The number of bars on your phone is very inaccurate. To get true signal strength you would use a calibrated receiver costing several thousand dollars.How would you compare then? These were the readings from the phones' own network type and strength setting.
I know I mentioned earlier about having trouble with radio signal at home, but I did want to say that it seems no different with any phone I have owned. My previous phones were, Palm Pre2, Palm Pre+, LG VX9500, and I can't remember before then...some Kyocera candy bar. I've been with Verizon throughout it all, and they have all had very similar signal strength at my house...1 or 2 bars...sometimes 3. I guess I'm saying that I haven't noticed my S3 to be notably different from my other phones. Is it possible that, due to the enormous popularity of the S3 'inflates' the perception that the radio is poor? I mean, it may be that the radio is not as good as say, the RAZR MAXX, but since there are so many users, even if the S3 is similar to less popular models, there will be a larger number of complaints, but as a percentage of owners, is it really much different from other models?