Official Signal Strength and Reception Thread

[Jdane07]

So as some may know, Verizon expanded their LTE network today.
4G finally hit Napa today for me, and I was very excited.

However, it only works occasionally.
When I have full bars of 4G, I try to load a webpage, etc. and it doesn't load. Then the entire signal area goes blank, then gray, then back to blue. I can only occasionally get data/voice connectivity, even though it shows great service.

Is this something common since it's only the first day of 4G in the area?

 

[Ridgerunner20]

Hey guys, here's a good example of that's going on with my phone. Notice, I have no 4g or 3g at the time I took the screen shot (I lose 4g and 3g a lot of the time when I use my phone). Also, I went from a full charge to fourteen percent in six hours, that's sad (With very little use). One more thing is the awake time, I bet all the time the phone was on, I had no signal. Almost all of my phones I've had have this problem to a greater or lesser existent (I've been through six phones so far). Any thoughts on a fix or should I just replace it? Thanks.

Edit, as of the moment I have no signal

 

[dubge]

So as some may know, Verizon expanded their LTE network today.
4G finally hit Napa today for me, and I was very excited.

However, it only works occasionally.
When I have full bars of 4G, I try to load a webpage, etc. and it doesn't load. Then the entire signal area goes blank, then gray, then back to blue. I can only occasionally get data/voice connectivity, even though it shows great service.

Is this something common since it's only the first day of 4G in the area?

That is not common. That is the problem I had with the Gnex and ended up (sadly) getting a different phone

 

[Omen87]

I am having the exact same problems with mine. Unfortunately, I bought mine off of eBay and do not have insurance. Looks like I'm gong phone shopping.

 

[tony bag o donuts]

Newer 4g areas IMHO are still not 100%
My area had poor 4g and had same issues as you until 4g was upgraded again this year. Yes some dead spots but I think its the network lately as a whole.

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[Jon1029]

I have had my nexus for months. It has worked great until about a week ago. When I am inside the city limits it still works ok. But at my house, which is 4 mile outside city limits, it still shows 2 bars of 4G but as soon as I try to call someone or send a text it looses all bars and searches for service. This really sucks because it worked great at my house until a week ago. I'm wondering if they have updated the tower near my house and it screwed my reception up.

Jon

 

[Dark Penguin]

LG Optimus S, which I got about ten months ago, using a third party carrier piggybacked to Sprint's network. With a few notable exceptions in my area, which is Palms in L.A., I always have plenty of bars, can make calls, and can do basic low bandwidth Internet activities like Wikipedia lookups and checking email. For that matter even Google Maps is usually usable for determining my position or getting directions; on the other hand, the network is usually too slow to use Google Navigation for turn-by-turn driving directions in real time. And audio streaming just plain sucks, no matter where I am. Even when I'm at home using my wifi network to connect to the Internet, I frequently experience a dropped stream; at which point I pick up the phone to look -- and it's "buffering". Once. Again. I have an average wifi DL throughput of 1.6 - 2.0Mbps so I know it's not my network that's the problem. It's not my internal storage that's the problem, either; there is plenty of space in there.

Some of the streaming problems may stem from the OS according to this.

I'm not at all encouraged by this, which I saw earlier today for the first time. In fact, I've started carrying my old uncontracted Windows smartphone just so I can listen through its FM radio app. I get a little static from time to time, but that's better than a stream dropping and then taking a whole minute or two to buffer--again. I'm seriously considering iPhone for my next device; at least I should look into it with this streaming issue in mind.

 

[rxmorph]

Just another example of signal issue.. all while in a great 4G service area of course. This is my new device, not the replacement yet. Hopefully if anything, it isn't worse. Total of seven times within this particular screen shot. I put it in 4G around 7:30pm give or take.

 

[yenyob]

I've decided to keep notes each day doing different things. For example tomorrow I will keep only 3G, no wifi on, the next, 3G with wifi, then 4G etc...testing the service in one shot today was a little difficult to track, but I will say I've had 34 lost signal events since 7:34am. That's using all connections. This is my 2nd GNEX as the first had an issue with the screen constantly turning on. After my experiment, if I'm not happy with the results I may have to get another phone. The csr at vzw said in a round-about way that I may be able to change phones if the issue continues as I said I didn't want to get a bunch of phones if this is a hardware issue. I'd do that only for an S3. If I remember, I'll post my results.

edit: I wanted to point out I live in an area that just got 4G about a month or so ago and it's not a large city.

 

[soupcon]

I have had three Motorola's and numerous BB's, never a signal issue. Have had my Samsung Galaxy Nexus 7 days and have been having absolutely the worst signal, dropped and no service issues since I was a T-Mobile customer years ago. The most frustrating phone ever.

 

[Ali Fazel]

I always thought the biggest problem was with the 3G/4G handover. When I lose all signal briefly, I just tell my wife that my phone is "doing it's Samsung thing again."

 

[jriedesel]

I have had three Motorola's and numerous BB's, never a signal issue. Have had my Samsung Galaxy Nexus 7 days and have been having absolutely the worst signal, dropped and no service issues since I was a T-Mobile customer years ago. The most frustrating phone ever.

This is precisely my complaint - especially the T-Mobile line. I am about to upgrade and will look for a Motorola or HTC phone.

 

[lets_go_android]

Somebody correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't that No Signal Alert App only detect voice signal loss, not LTE signal loss? It wasn't that clear from the app description, but when I used it, I lost LTE several times without any indication on No Signal Alert. I uninstalled it shortly after, since loss of LTE signal is what I care about.

The Nexus could've been (maybe could still be?) a very nice phone but the unreliable data connectivity makes me want to throw it against the wall at times.

 

[rxmorph]

Somebody correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't that No Signal Alert App only detect voice signal loss, not LTE signal loss? It wasn't that clear from the app description, but when I used it, I lost LTE several times without any indication on No Signal Alert. I uninstalled it shortly after, since loss of LTE signal is what I care about.

The Nexus could've been (maybe could still be?) a very nice phone but the unreliable data connectivity makes me want to throw it against the wall at times.

I believe you are correct. It only alerts when you lose all connections, however in most cases with the connection issue on the nexus (it seems from my personal experience and from the majority of what I have read online) that is what normally happens. All connections are lost temporarily and sporadically with LTE enabled. It used to take mine around 15 to 20 seconds to reestablish voice/data connection.

 

[lets_go_android]

rxmorph, thanks for the confirmation. What you said makes sense and is consistent with what I've observed. I'm hoping that the upcoming Jelly Bean (+radios) update will fix the problem. That would be sooo nice...

 

[flippedout]

4G signal is usually quite strong. 3G is weak and voice reception is horrible. Every time I use the device as a phone I have trouble hearing the other person and they say I am constantly breaking up. Annoying and hoping the updated radios that are part of the JB update will improve the crappy reception on this otherwise great devices.

 

[richardyarrell]

Personally I blame Verizon 100%

Sent from my Galaxy S3 on Tmobile..

 

[richardyarrell]

Leaving Verizon for Tmobile was the BEST thing I ever did. My Galaxy S3 makes the CDMA VERIZON GALAXY NEXUS useless...

Sent from my Galaxy S3 on Tmobile..

 

[Chris]

Leaving Verizon for Tmobile was the BEST thing I ever did. My Galaxy S3 makes the CDMA VERIZON GALAXY NEXUS useless...

Sent from my Galaxy S3 on Tmobile..

You are by far the biggest troll in the Android community. First it was how every carrier but Sprint sucked, then Verizon and now T-Mobile. wtf?

 

[dmmarck]

First, name calling and general trolling is not welcome here.

Second, the Sprint Nexus has absolutely abysmal signal strength.

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