Official Signal Strength and Reception Thread

[craigrn16]

Re: Anyone still having issues with the signal

I get a very strong phone signal and much fewer drops than with the Bionic or OG Droid - I get better phone signal than my wife who has an IPhone 4.

However my internet signal needs to be stronger.

I've heard that people who have installed rom's and updated to 4.0.3 have these issues resolved so there is no need to return the phone.

I was waiting for the official update but I might just root now. I am surprised I haven'y rooted yet actually, this is my first android phone I have never rooted right away.

 

[kca2000]

Re: Anyone still having issues with the signal

I was waiting for the official update but I might just root now. I am surprised I haven'y rooted yet actually, this is my first android phone I have never rooted right away.

I was considering this myself. But i am afraid rooting and new Roms might cause new issues. I was hoping google would send out an update to the OS and the radios before the return date hits but i doubt it will happen that fast now.

 

[pauldroidr2d2]

I think Samsung makes terrible radios for there phone but I will say they only time i have problems with signal is change over from 4g to 3g or wifi to 3g. Also some places I use to get 4g signal from with my HTC thunderbolt doesn't always connect with my 4G

The Nexus is not the only 4G LTE phone that is having signal and or switching problems.

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[pauldroidr2d2]

The Bionic still has issues with switching between 3G & 4G LTE even after the most recent OTA. The Razr has similar problems.

Are the problems the phones or does it lie somewhere in VZW'S 4G LTE network?

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[Jdm4292]

I must say yesrerday was the first time I've actually lost signal for more than a minute and it was slow picking up towers or something. Then it would say I had signal but wouldn't download anything with 4g

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[DreamSTi]

Re: Anyone still having issues with the signal

I have issues with my GN as well that I never had with my Thunderbolt. I hope they fix it with a software update, because its just plain annoying.

 

[netefx]

Re: Anyone still having issues with the signal

Here is Sacramento California, the Razr and LTE network seem to have stabilized. For a while it was hard to sort out network versus phone issues. I uninstalled Juice Defender, which seem to be causing most of the unreliability. After that, during the last week the Razr stays on LTE 85-90% of the time for me. It is able to drop back to 3G without significant data flow disruption. I see up to 35 Mbps down and 15 up with Speedtest.net under the best 4G LTE configuration. I'm happy with the Razr now.

 

[xelhabb]

Re: Anyone still having issues with the signal

If you live in a bad 4G area, switch to 3G only and your problem will be solved.

My area is ok for 4G. But the signal bars definitely do not correlate to call quality. Even at 1 bar on 4G my call quality is the same and downloads scream. There is a place in the facility I work where reception is awful but its due to the wall thickness and equipment. It was the same before on my DX as well.

I will say that 4G is absolutely incredible when it comes to download speed or data exchange on certain apps.

 

[jroc]

Re: Anyone still having issues with the signal

I get a very strong phone signal and much fewer drops than with the Bionic or OG Droid - I get better phone signal than my wife who has an IPhone 4.

However my internet signal needs to be stronger.

If you live in a bad 4G area, switch to 3G only and your problem will be solved.

My area is ok for 4G. But the signal bars definitely do not correlate to call quality. Even at 1 bar on 4G my call quality is the same and downloads scream. There is a place in the facility I work where reception is awful but its due to the wall thickness and equipment. It was the same before on my DX as well.

I will say that 4G is absolutely incredible when it comes to download speed or data exchange on certain apps.

This is whats causing me a dilemma with the G Nex. Its held its own for phone reception with my RAZR and DX1. Like SSHGuru, the internet signal is another story. I'm on 4.0.2 and dont plan on rooting and unlocking the bootloader unless I keep it. Still in the evaluating stages. Maybe I will just let CES decide for me...lol

I've already decided to not look at the bars or decibels with the G Nex, just real world use.

 

[Pghdroidette]

4G or 3G dont matter. I always have mine on CDMA only and this photo cant come close to my Motorola Droids for reception in a building. Outdoors it is fine, indoors is where I see a huge difference and sometimes cant get a signal at all...even though the Droids had no problem whatsoever.

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[p08757]

Re: Anyone still having issues with the signal

I never have experienced a signal problem thus far.

 

[dschulman]

Re: Anyone still having issues with the signal

I had the same problem. Called Verizon tech support, they deleted the feature stack and re-loaded it on their end and that seemed to fix the problem.

 

[HES]

Re: Anyone still having issues with the signal

4G or 3G dont matter. I always have mine on CDMA only and this photo cant come close to my Motorola Droids for reception in a building. Outdoors it is fine, indoors is where I see a huge difference and sometimes cant get a signal at all...even though the Droids had no problem whatsoever.

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Last night I put a Rezound, Bionic, and my GN side by side on my kitchen table. CDMA only, the Bionic was getting about -75 dBm, -83 dBm, and the GN was pulling in about -100dBm.

 

[dcdttu]

Re: 3G Reception Issues Compared to Other Phones

So as far as Anandtech's article, I agree with them. The Nexus shows 4G bars while other Verizon phones show 3G bars regardless of whether they're in 4G or 3G/4G. Fine.

Thing is, I'm talking about 3G reception, not 4G. I actually leave 4G off.

I also know this isn't an issue with just my phone. I have 5 different friends with this phone (we're all nerds and have been waiting for this phone forever). All of us have piss-poor reception. I've compared my phone with my step-dad's Nexus at the same time while using an iPhone 4 (on Verizon) in Field Test Mode for comparison. The Nexus both had significantly less signal than the iPhone, consistently. it was always 10-20dBm less. On the drive back from the family farm, the Nexus' lost signal several times while the iPhone 4 kept its signal the entire time, never leaving the -80dBm range.

Also, a friend of mine and myself, both Nexus owners, went to another friend's for dinner. He has a new iPhone 4s. His phone's dBm were in the -90s and his phone behaved perfectly fine: calls, text, data. I tested it myself. Me and my friend's Nexus had ZERO signal at his house. I was on his wifi and kept getting voicemail notifications from Google Voice because my phone had absolutely no 3G signal whatsoever. iPhone: 3 bars and in the -90dBm range. Two Nexus: ZERO bars and at -120dBm (the lowest they'll show). That's two phones tested.

I'd like to say it's just my phone. Or a fluke. Or I don't know what I'm talking about.. but that's not the case. I hardly ever get more than 2 bars of service anywhere I go in Austin. Call quality is crap, with the calls constantly cutting out and sounding garbled. Hell, my work building's roof has a 3G and 4G Verizon tower on it. All my coworkers that have Verizon have full service, in the -50 to -60dBm range. I have 4 bars and sit in the -70dBm range. And that's sitting next to the tower!

I even called Verizon about it and they couldn't understand me mid-call because my phone was cutting out so bad. It's the same problem with my friend's phones as well, so I know it's not just mine.

Very disappointed. I waited 6 months for this phone, and it can't keep a signal anywhere I go in the city. I can't tell you how many places I go and have zero bars (-115dBm or worse).

 

[thirsy1258]

I had the same problem. Called Verizon tech support, they deleted the feature stack and re-loaded it on their end and that seemed to fix the problem.

What exactly did you ask to have done ?

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[soogriff]

Re: Anyone still having issues with the signal

The only dropped calls I've had were when the other person was going through a bad area (ex: mountains, tunnels, etc).

 

[BlackLS3]

Re: Anyone still having issues with the signal

I had the same problem. Called Verizon tech support, they deleted the feature stack and re-loaded it on their end and that seemed to fix the problem.

Please elaborate what you had done so others might be able to benefit from it. What voice or data problems did it fix?

 

[nohbody]

Re: Anyone still having issues with the signal

Please elaborate what you had done so others might be able to benefit from it. What voice or data problems did it fix?

+1

 

[kph3]

I have had signal/call issues since I got the phone on launch day. My DroidX pulled a good phone signal for calls in my house and all about....don't think I can ever remember a dropped call on that phone. My GNex can't hold a call in my house and 3g is sketchy...cell tower is 2 miles from my house.

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[yosteve]

I notice that my bars as a whole are lower (full bars at work no longer). I also lose data when i'm driving towards downtown and getting on 4G.

I do have a dead zone on the way from work that is not dead to my GNex. :thumbup: