People receiving your phone--how is the signal strength?

[junglesnake98]

I'll be honest and tell anyone that the Samsung radios seem good to me. I am getting the same signal as my iPhone or my wife's iPhone. And the speediest is identical to my 4g iPad so I think people are reading to much into the radio's. It could be giving false readings or maybe the phone is bad, it happens. I'm not going to say its the best but I have no phone or device in my home that's any better. So I'm happy and for the people that are having trouble, take it back and try something else. I wish I could advise someone on what to try as I have tried almost everything but good luck to those that choose to go in another direction.

 

[cutigerjbm]

I had the gnex, and under settings>battery>cell standby, I would get time without signal from 60% to 80% after about 14 hours time on battery. With the sgs3, every day I have checked, it has been 0% time without signal, so I'd say it's a lot better. Gnex would be on -120 most of the time, where the sgs3 is usually around -92 or better.

 

[mud314]

Got this from Phandroid and a mod named ofTheDamned had posted it

Technically -1 is a higher number than -100, so a "lower" negative number will always be better.

-105 to -100 = Really bad
-99 to -90 = Not great
-89 to -80 = Pretty good
-79 to -65 = Good
Over -65 = Excellent

It's useless to just see a number as you need to compare it another phone in the same spot.

Thanks for this. I really never understood this, nor do I need to fully understand it, just wanted to get a point of where good is. this does it

 

[dtreo]

I had the gnex, and under settings>battery>cell standby, I would get time without signal from 60% to 80% after about 14 hours time on battery. With the sgs3, every day I have checked, it has been 0% time without signal, so I'd say it's a lot better. Gnex would be on -120 most of the time, where the sgs3 is usually around -92 or better.

I returned a GNex due to the terrible radios. It way underperformed as far as WiFi, 3G, GPS. Sounds like GS3 is much better.

Sent via EVO LTE

 

[Kegs2015]

My signal is -101 in house and can't hold a conversation. I here about every third word

 

[blade22222]

-69 in my house 3g only. -105 at work 4g there.

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[Suntan]

Just to add some more anecdotal evidence, my call and 3G capabilities seem to be as good or better than on my old Droid 3. ...Obviously, the 4G is much better.

Interestingly, the Wifi on the GSIII seems to be markedly better than it was on the Droid 3 too.

Ultimately though, I've never dropped a call (although I don't talk on it much) and I can get 14Mbps 4G even in BFE rural Iowa when visiting the inlaws. So I'm happy.

-Suntan

 

[ColdBrew]

Coming from my Droid Bionic I think the S3 is considerably worse. There is an area on my way home, of about a mile stretch, where my Bionic has reception that my S3 doesn't. Also I've noticed it switches to 3G a lot more than my Bionic did, around my office building.

It hasn't been a problem over all for me except for that stretch between work and home. No Pandora for me for a couple of minutes.

 

[Wnrgway]

It's certainly worse than my iPhone 4 which very rarely dropped calls at home. The Galaxy S3 will drop a call if I'm on the phone longer than 10 minutes or so.

I'm not sure if it's a reception issue or caused by switching cell towers. It seems to keep swapping between 3 towers. Reception ranges -93 to -105.

I'm going to take it into the local Verizon store this weekend and see what they say.

 

[kb0uy]

I went to a coorpret store today stating the difference between the Bionic and S3 using the same sim card. The Bionic was -85 and the S3 was 100. Before anyone asks, I used an adapter. They told me the phone was to new and call Tech Support.

 

[smooches680]

My 3g and 4g is both bad, I don't even get LTE here in GA, and I called Sprint they told me to just turn on 3g since the other is not available and I did that and still don't work good, I can't even get on Facebook so you now that is bad. I have to use WiFi from home.

Sent from my White, Sexy S3.

 

[dj hidroid]

My Dbm on my Tmobile Galaxy S3 is -77 right now. This is the exact reason why I kicked Verizon to the curb for Tmobile. I new buying this Galaxy S3 and switching carriers would be the best thing. My Galaxy S3 works in places my Galaxy Nexus on Verizon never did.

Dude when you had Sprint you swore by them and then when you got the Gnex you swore by Verizon. It seems that whatever carrier and phone you have is the best. Stop trolling and go back to your t-mobile board.

 

[Mungus99]

Signal poor. Drops calls constantly. I'm marking the drops for Verizon tech's to look at. My Incredible never dropped a call, and could pull a signal from the bottom of the ocean. That being said, I like this phone and plan on working out the bugs

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[glassygurl]

i'm coming from an iphone so can't compare but havent had any issues with signal strength as of yet

 

[chevyman29]

theres definitly some bad units out there cause after two weeks now ive had just as good of service as i got with my maxx . and im always traveling in and out of fringe areas throughout the day . if your phone is having tons of dropped calls go exchange it and be done with it . i wouldnt swap my s3 for any moto or htc phone out there right now and ive always been a huge moto fan .

 

[radar320]

I haven't had the dropped calls, but signal strength has been terrible. Only could get 3g in a strong 4g area. had to be a mile from a tower to get 4g. Went in yesterday and got a new sim card, and now it is working well. Still not as strong as I would like it to be, but I can live with it for now.

 

[DrPreeth]

Mine says -103 db at the moment. I know my area is a dead spot for Tmobile pretty much. The phone has been fine..calls have been fine so i dont know if this signal strength is a problem or not...My dad has an OG Droid, i should check his signal strength.

 

[HalizDad]

Had the Gnex along with a steady -120 dBm and a 99 asu. Traded it and bought the S3. -82 dBm and 23 asu. Musta' had a bad GNex.

 

[DrPreeth]

Mine never switches to 3G at the house...it always holds the 4G LTE signal. Just did a speedtest and im getting 15mbps down...so im happy . I use wifi when im at home though.

 

[richardyarrell]

Yes bad Nexus

Sent from my Galaxy S3 on Tmobile..