Google Nexus Y U DO THIS?!

[Doctor3k]

I have never ..repeat NEVER owned a Google/Android device in my life so this is REALLY daunting/hard for me to understand. In fact, I work at an Apple store. I bought one because my iPhone kinda, well, it fell in the toilet and that's not covered under warranty (I checked).

Anyway, I bought one off eBay for $250. I pop in my SIM card, contact AT&T have the IMEI added and the data plan slapped on there. I restart the phone and it's running at 1 bar of HSPA+ and often it just drops off to nothing and my calls drop and life sucks for me. I don't think this is a problem with my house or my area since my wife's iPhone 4S works perfectly on AT&T's faux 4G network and has 4 bars (never less than 2) sitting right next to my droid.

Things I've tried:

* Getting a new SIM
* Mucking around between Takju/Yakju
* Resetting to factory
* Using 4.0.4
* Installing above japanese named OSes and then upgrading to 4.1.1
* cleaning the contacts on SIM card and battery

 

[fender7217]

You haven't tried flashing new radios though?

 

[e2ackbar]

I had similar issues until changing the APN settings. There are several threads in this forum and the AT&T forum that have the correct settings. Use phone and pta, with phone as the default. I left the AT&T MMS APN in place. My data rates now equal or exceed my wife's gs2 using the stock radio. I hope this helps.

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[1088933]

You haven't tried flashing new radios though?

I would suggest this as well. Sometimes running a different radio makes the difference.

 

[Doctor3k]

Can someone tell me which radios would be appropriate. Like I said, I'm REALLY new to Android and I don't wanna grab the wrong one and brick a $400 phone and have Nelson Muntz yell "Ha-Ha!" at me as I try to RMA it.

I have to say though, I like this little Lloyd guy, he's brave and doesn't afraid of Steve Jobs.

EDIT:

I finally found some radio files which I guess are supposed to work? I dunno, when I flash the bootloader the radio and then takju - the takju process complains about the baseband and says I need to have XXKK6 or two other bands. I looked them up, they appear to be European? Does this mean I'm on a European GSM phone? I haven't a damn idea what I"m doing anymore so I'm going to step away from the phone and let someone who is smart answer me first before I go screwing around anymore

 

[DroidDavi]

uglc1 is the latest north american radio. All you have to do is flash it in the recovery. Head over to xda there a whole tread with the radio files.

 

[sting7k]

My iPhone 4 gets better reception than my Galaxy Nexus. It may be that's just how it is going to be.

What did you have AT&T do? There's no reason to have them do anything. I would make sure they didn't mess up your data plan some how. The Nexus isn't officially supported by them and they will know the IMEI of your phone the second you connect to the network anyway.

 

[TheIowaKid]

Just remember that iPhones will show more "bars" than your actually getting. Remember AntennaGate? If multiple Speed tests show its actually getting a stronger signal then mess with your radio. APNs can also be an issue but Im guessing you got a a phone running a euro radio and you just need to flash the current one. I have not seen uglc1 however. Im running XXLA2 although i think the latest was XXKF1.