I Have a Request for Those of You w/o Signal Issues Update 3/5

[Johnbibbs]

This is since I put my new battery in earlier. I was driving through a couple of areas with known weak signal in the middle of nowhere so that explains the brief loss of signal.

Let me know if you want more info.

Sent from my Galaxy Nexus

 

[ace8707]

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[Bob61]

Re: I Have a Request for Those of You Without Signal Issues

Here's mine for the day, looks like mine is showing green all day, but I do find 2% without a signal.

 

[oxymoron]

No issues with mine either. I'm in a fringe area at home, and I've been off work for the holidays so I have been a VERY HEAVY user. Anyway...

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[daso]

Re: I Have a Request for Those of You Without Signal Issues

I've had some odd complete signal drops in areas I normally don't have an issue in NYC. I suddenly lose all connectivity for 20-30 seconds then all signal comes back. It just happened in my hallway, but not in my apartment. Vaguely reminiscent of my Thunderbolt. Happens once a day or so.

 

[karn101]

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Seeing yours gives me hope that maybe my phone is the culprit. I am not in any poor reception area. I spend my days in NYC, Queens, and Nassau County. I find it hard to believe that this entire area has poor reception, yet I can't seem find a spec of green in my signal meter bar. Not once since I got the phone. I travel around these areas all day, different parts everyday, so its not like I'm stuck in two dead zones, between home and work.

I live in Queens, work at JFK, and travel often to Nassau to visit family/take the kids to school. I ALWAYS have 4G (except for certain places in JFK where celllular penetration is very weak).

Here is a link to a post I made in another thread with your requested attachments.
http://forums.androidcentral.com/ve...ence-signal-issue-your-gn-12.html#post1517156

This is why I truly believe there are a bad batch of phones. I am in the same areas and have NONE of these problems.

EDIT: For the sake of simplicity, I will attach it here too. Remember, the area I am in there is only Verizon service and it is very weak. Sprint, ATT, and T-Mobile users have no signal while I barely maintain it. Still, I do not have a ton of red like others.

 

[2defmouze]

Re: I Have a Request for Those of You Without Signal Issues

Its all going to depend on location, IMO, it effects our 4G phones with their known issues very differently depending on where you are. I live in the north Bronx, NYC... At my apt I never lose data/signal, yet never really have more than 2 bars, however, phone functions great, battery life is great, even on 4G only, and speed is fantastic.

At my work location, which is technically closer towards manhattan and I would expect the signal to be even better, its kind of a "dead zone" I've determined, as the Nexus and my Bionic before both had the same issues losing 4G, and sometimes even 3G for periods there (Though, fwiw, I think the nexus has somewhat fewer problems)... but point is, my battery graph for a period at the job site would look terrible in terms of signal and resultant battery drains, but for the same period of time at my apartment it will look great.

So at work I know to just flip my phone to 3G to have less battery drain and fewer issues, unless I bring a charger, in which case I'll leave it on 4G. If you happen to live somewhere which resembles my job site, then that sucks and I feel for you, I wouldn't be able to deal. Obviously since my apartment gets consistently good signal and no issues, I'm much happier with my phone.

 

[CarryMe]

Re: I Have a Request for Those of You Without Signal Issues

So at work I know to just flip my phone to 3G to have less battery drain and fewer issues, unless I bring a charger, in which case I'll leave it on 4G. If you happen to live somewhere which resembles my job site, then that sucks and I feel for you, I wouldn't be able to deal. Obviously since my apartment gets consistently good signal and no issues, I'm much happier with my phone.

What we need to see is more comparisons between the GNex, the Razr and the Rezound in the same locations.

 

[E.T.]

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I charged mine at work just before leaving today. It shows 3.5 hours since off charge, but all green and yellow. No red. But, look at the first pic - 65% of the time no signal!??!! Huh?? But all green/yellow. Maybe it shows no signal when its on wifi? I am on the edge of the official VZW 4G signal at home, and use wifi at home. But, I never noticed a time without a signal, and have never noticed any issues at home or during my commute. Ten minutes after the first pic, it is up to 67% of the time without a signal.

Edit: Birmingham, AL

Just FYI, I noticed your phone shows it being "awake" 100% of the time for the entire 3-4 hours you were using it. Not sure if you saw that too. Your phone does not show the screen being on during that time, so maybe you were listening to radio? Or your phone might not be sleeping when it should.

Doesn't really explain your loss of signal 65% of the time, but it could be the "Gnex not going to sleep" problem that has been mentioned in other posts and could be draining your battery.

 

[Johnbibbs]

What we need to see is more comparisons between the GNex, the Razr and the Rezound in the same locations.

I can do this with my GN and my wife's Charge. If you want it then let me know.

That's the best I can do, maybe somebody else will have two of the newer phones they can do this with.

Sent from my Galaxy Nexus

 

[E.T.]

Re: I Have a Request for Those of You Without Signal Issues

Here is mine. 3g only area here. I will do another one in the area around my house that has lte later.

Wow. That is a lot of nice green. I am in a 4g area and have never seen green either - only yellow and red. I feel like this screenshot is what we should be getting. Any percent without signal?

 

[E.T.]

Re: I Have a Request for Those of You Without Signal Issues

Here's mine for the day, looks like mine is showing green all day, but I do find 2% without a signal.

Are you sure yours is showing green all day? Looks mostly yellow and red to me. . .

 

[sq0nk]

Re: I Have a Request for Those of You Without Signal Issues

Here's mine. I was in the office today for 8 hours which is known to have weak 4G and 3G signals. I wasn't able to watch the phone like a hawk but when I did have a chance to look all seemed well.

I actually have two co-workers, one with a Razr and one with a Charge but they are both on vacation this week so I can't compare the 3 phones.

FYI that I'm still running 4.0.1. Haven't upgraded as things seem fine at the moment.

 

[CarryMe]

Re: I Have a Request for Those of You Without Signal Issues

I can do this with my GN and my wife's Charge. If you want it then let me know.

Unfortunately, I think comparing the GNex to the Charge is comparing apples to apples.

 

[E.T.]

Re: I Have a Request for Those of You Without Signal Issues

What we need to see is more comparisons between the GNex, the Razr and the Rezound in the same locations.

Unfortunately, I cant post any screenshots because I no longer have it, but I did use the Rezound in the same house I use the Gnex.

Rezound = extremely fast and never lost 4G signal. Gnex = much slower; only connects to 3G. No 4G signal.

Frustrating.

 

[CarryMe]

Re: I Have a Request for Those of You Without Signal Issues

Unfortunately, I cant post any screenshots because I no longer have it, but I did use the Rezound in the same house I use the Gnex.

Rezound = extremely fast and never lost 4G signal. Gnex = much slower; only connects to 3G. No 4G signal.

Frustrating.

I have the same issue with my GNex - doesn't hold or grab onto the 4G signal. I wish I knew someone with another Android to see if it is my GNex that is the problem.

 

[willstilson]

Re: I Have a Request for Those of You Without Signal Issues

Ok so by my count, half of the screenshots posted, so far, are predominantly green, while the other half are predominantly yellow. Now many factors need to be taken into account, to determine why this is. It is possible, for example, that all the devices, that were showing mostly green, were sitting in a high reception area, for the majority of their graph, while all the mostly yellow devices were sitting in poor reception areas, for the majority of their graphs.

One thing to note however, is that we did not take into account which network we were connected to, for the majority of the graphs. Is it possible that all the green screenshots occurred while the phone was on 3G, while the yellow ones took place on 4G? Does any of this matter at all? I have no idea. All I know is, I started this thread expecting to see no screenshot with a lot of green, and a few of you proved me wrong, so I think will be unrooting, re-locking and heading back to VZW asap.

 

[willstilson]

Re: I Have a Request for Those of You Without Signal Issues

Here's mine. I was in the office today for 8 hours which is known to have weak 4G and 3G signals. I wasn't able to watch the phone like a hawk but when I did have a chance to look all seemed well.

I actually have two co-workers, one with a Razr and one with a Charge but they are both on vacation this week so I can't compare the 3 phones.

FYI that I'm still running 4.0.1. Haven't upgraded as things seem fine at the moment.

Still the majority of your graph shows strong reception. I envy your device.

 

[Johnbibbs]

Unfortunately, I think comparing the GNex to the Charge is comparing apples to apples.

Maybe, maybe not. I may do it anyways just for the sake of my own curiosity. If anyone cares then I will post the results here.

Sent from my Galaxy Nexus

 

[willstilson]

Re: I Have a Request for Those of You Without Signal Issues

I live in Queens, work at JFK, and travel often to Nassau to visit family/take the kids to school. I ALWAYS have 4G (except for certain places in JFK where celllular penetration is very weak).

Here is a link to a post I made in another thread with your requested attachments.
http://forums.androidcentral.com/ve...ence-signal-issue-your-gn-12.html#post1517156

This is why I truly believe there are a bad batch of phones. I am in the same areas and have NONE of these problems.

EDIT: For the sake of simplicity, I will attach it here too. Remember, the area I am in there is only Verizon service and it is very weak. Sprint, ATT, and T-Mobile users have no signal while I barely maintain it. Still, I do not have a ton of red like others.

This is the closest to what mine looks like, daily. Perhaps it is a region specific incident, given that we are both generally in the same area. You do have a spec of green there, though, where as I never do. I also see a red line, indicating signal dropout.