Official Signal Strength and Reception Thread

[majiklantrn]

Re: low signal strength?

The Nexus S 4G on Sprint literally doubled throughput on all radios between 2.3.4 and 2.3.5.

With that said, the radios on the GN seem capable of great speeds.


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I think we all need to be a little patient with the deployment. I can't imagine google employees ok with bad signal issues, etc.....

 

[mjforte]

What a shame that Verizon consistently releases phones with these problems. I know there will be those who say it's ok, we are beta testers, this is new technology. What BS. Folks you're paying hundreds of dollars, this should work out of the box. If you went to Best Buy and bought the newest HD TV and the HD part didn't work, you would be storming back to the store within minutes demanding a new one or your money back. Amazing that people accept this"

Well everyone complained so much that the phone wasn't being released and look what happened when they released it. I have a feeling the phone wasnt as ready as it should have been but was pushed out because of everyone's constant pestering of Verizon about it. Now everyone is complaining about low signal, battery issues, and low volume. Maybe the delays were for a reason and not just because people think they wanted to sell more RAZRs, Rezounds, etc.

 

[Premium1]

Re: low signal strength?

Well everyone complained so much that the phone wasn't being released and look what happened when they released it. I have a feeling the phone wasnt as ready as it should have been but was pushed out because of everyone's constant pestering of Verizon about it. Now everyone is complaining about low signal, battery issues, and low volume. Maybe the delays were for a reason and not just because people think they wanted to sell more RAZRs, Rezounds, etc.

If you honestly think verizon would release a phone with a ton of bugs because people were ing you are crazy. Battery sucks on all 4g phones plain and simple. People complaining about low volume that is something that may be able to be tweaked through software like the droid x was. At first the speaker was very quiet and then with updates it got much louder. The signal will also get a boost with new radios and future updates.

 

[theduder]

I think we all need to be a little patient with the deployment. I can't imagine google employees ok with bad signal issues, etc.....

The employees all receive gsm phones, so they probably don't care.

I am fine with it, the platform will improve, but it's more than fine right now imo.

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[kath00]

The signal shows less bars, but, I haven't had any problems so far with placing, or receiving calls. I also haven't had any problems with the phone connecting to things like the market. While my Droid Bionic would show almost all bars, 4G LTE and many times it would time out trying to connect to the market.

So while the signal strength seems to be weaker,it so far is more stable.

Same here. I see less bars but no problems in any way with networks or calls.

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[Davidoo]

Re: low signal strength?

If it is a cheap or poorly designed antenna, no amount of software tweaks can fix it. You have to wonder what kind of testing they really do on these devices, I mean didn't someone go more than a few feet from a tower to test? Seems like that would be one of the first things you would do, to make sure it works at the same distance as other devices. Obviously they didn't even do this. I think they just slap this crap together in Asia and start selling it.

 

[Davidoo]

Re: Just a fair warning (low reception)

i have low bars. But have no worries. Im sure its just cause 4g is hit or miss. a bar or two of 4G is alot better than 3G at full strength. As far as other phones go..NEVER! lol

This is called being in denial because you spent a lot of money on it that it must work.

 

[Rockn]

Re: low signal strength?

For the sake of completeness on this thread I offer my experiences, I am not bragging - just lucky. I am usually in an area with strong 4G signals and I am getting incredible battery life compared to what others are talking about. The lowest I have gone is 3/4 on the 4G signal meter when I am at home or my office, and never less than 100% outdoors in these places. I did go out of town and hit a 3G area and the battery got sucked some serious juice during the way back into full 4G land - popping in and out of 4G going up and over the hills while I had the GPS navigator app running.
My 2cents - its the network and not just the phone.

 

[Small_law]

Re: Just a fair warning (low reception)

The signal strength indicator may be underreporting. I'm getting the same signal strength I used to with the Thunderbolt. I'm going to compare against my girlfriend's Droid Charge.

 

[xliderider]

Re: Just a fair warning (low reception)

For all of you looking at "bars" of indicated signal strength, you should be looking at signal strength in -dBm with an app like Mobile Signal Widget. Bars are pretty useless, as devices have different calibrations. I've also read that as a hybrid device that uses 3G for voice and LTE for data, all Verizon "4G" devices now are indicating the 3G signal on their "bars" display, not the LTE signal strength FWIW.

 

[shadrap]

Re: Just a fair warning (low reception)

Do not look at bars, look at the dBm under about phone. This phone has on average is 20 dBm higher. My wife's iPhone 4s is at 83 dBm, the Nexus is at 100 dBm. Then when I compare speed test the iPhone is pulling almost twice the speed.

If your signal is worse, your speed is worse.

This was of coarse compared on 3G.

 

[dman2275]

Re: Just a fair warning (low reception)

I agree with the op. I played with the SGN along side my Charge and the charge was consistantly better signal wise (at least -20 lower than the SGN). My charge never went about -93 where the SGN sometimes was over -100. The SGN still connected and I was able to surf the web and never lost the signal but I worry about when I am moving around and the phone will be bouncing from 4G to 3G to 1x.....that will destroy the battery.

For those of us in a fringe area, this is a big issue. It made me hold off until there is a fix(hopefully a software update for the radio) for it and then I will upgrade.

 

[mngdew]

Re: Just a fair warning (low reception)

I had RAZR prior to GNEX. I don't notice much difference between the two. During last two weeks of time with RAZR, I did notice frequent LTE signal droppings. It seemed to happen since the recent LTE outage.

 

[CarryMe]

Re: low signal strength?

I think they just slap this crap together in Asia and start selling it.

And how would that be different from any other electronics nowadays? Pretty much all electronics are made in China nowadays.

The labor there is cheap. The communist government covets our paper dollars, so they work their people in factories all day to slap together crap for us to buy with our paper dollars.

Why anyone would give you a phone in exchange for paper is beyond me, but the Chinese will.

 

[VideoEngineerAJS]

I put my wife's Revolution right next to my phone and there is only a 3-5 dbm difference however my wife's phone shows 2 bars and the Galaxy Nexus shows 1 or even 0 bars.

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[philly]

Re: low signal strength?

-83 dbm at home with my gnex.. havent had any signal issues or call quality issues over my first 24 hrs with the phone.

I willl note.. that when I put my fascinate on ICS.. it began looking like I had less bars then it showed with 2.x .. so I really dont think people should put a ton of stock in the bars yet.. might need a little tweaking on ICS.

 

[Premium1]

Re: low signal strength?

-83 dbm at home with my gnex.. havent had any signal issues or call quality issues over my first 24 hrs with the phone.

I willl note.. that when I put my fascinate on ICS.. it began looking like I had less bars then it showed with 2.x .. so I really dont think people should put a ton of stock in the bars yet.. might need a little tweaking on ICS.

I was the same way with my fascinate. I got less bars with the ics rom and it also seemed to drain battery a lot faster than normal, and also faster than the battery drains on my nexus.

 

[defdc]

Re: low signal strength?

At my work, it was crazy bouncing between no signal and 3 bars with my OG Droid. Now I either have 1 bar of LTE or drop signal altogether. As soon as I step outside, mostly 3 bars of LTE.

I wasn't sure if LTE/4G building penetration was supposed to be better or worse, but so far, it's not looking good. I'll wait it out out until the 15th to see if things get better. I love the phone, otherwise. I'd hope verizon would understand a 4g phone with no service is worthless!

 

[pdub73]

Re: low signal strength?

so I posted on page 8 that I didn't notice any change in performance even with "less bars" in fact when I went to work I was able to stream youtube videos with no buffering, with only a 3g signal with no bars...with my Droid X I could have 2 or 3 bars and a youtube video wouldn't even load...then I went to an area where I know there is good signal and I got 3 bars of 4g signal and dowloaded a 184mb audio cd in 3 mins...if an OTA update can improve on that then I hope they do it but its working fine for me...

 

[VideoEngineerAJS]

At my work, it was crazy bouncing between no signal and 3 bars with my OG Droid. Now I either have 1 bar of LTE or drop signal altogether. As soon as I step outside, mostly 3 bars of LTE.

I wasn't sure if LTE/4G building penetration was supposed to be better or worse, but so far, it's not looking good. I'll wait it out out until the 15th to see if things get better. I love the phone, otherwise. I'd hope verizon would understand a 4g phone with no service is worthless!

LTE technically should be better at building penetration because the frequency is lower (700MHZ vs. 800MHZ). I've not noticed any signal or speed differences between the Thunderbolt and the Galaxy Nexus.

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