Phone signal issue in my apt

[lizardking13]

Hello everyone I just purchased my LG g2 last night and so far I'm very happy with it. I've got spark, great data speeds, and a snappy device. However there is one complaint I have and I'm wondering if there is anything I can try to do to fix it.

In my apt I am getting very poor cell reception. One to two bars at best. When I go to signal strength is consistently lists at - 100 dbm or worse. My previous phone was a galaxy s2 also with sprint. I never had signal issues with it. Always 4 or 5 bars. Oh and one other thing! This is the weirdest part... The signal bars go up when I'm on a phone call, but I've already missed a couple of texts.

What I'm wondering is, does anyone know if there is a setting or something I can change to try to improve this? I have ready updated prl and profile and that gave me the amazing data connection, but cell connection is still bad.

 

[depechemodegurl]

Hello everyone I just purchased my LG g2 last night and so far I'm very happy with it. I've got spark, great data speeds, and a snappy device. However there is one complaint I have and I'm wondering if there is anything I can try to do to fix it.

In my apt I am getting very poor cell reception. One to two bars at best. When I go to signal strength is consistently lists at - 100 dbm or worse. My previous phone was a galaxy s2 also with sprint. I never had signal issues with it. Always 4 or 5 bars.

What I'm wondering is, does anyone know if there is a setting or something I can change to try to improve this? I have ready updated prl and profile and that gave me the amazing data connection, but cell connection is still bad.

In my area, I have to change my phone to cdma only to get good phone signal in my house. Apparently, the tower right by my house wasn't upgraded to lte so if I leave it on lte/ cdma then the phone signal sucks because it hits the lte tower that's far away. Maybe try changing that And see if it helps the phone signal, its a long shot but worth a check.

Rockin my LG G2

 

[lizardking13]

In my area, I have to change my phone to cdma only to get good phone signal in my house. Apparently, the tower right by my house wasn't upgraded to lte so if I leave it on lte/ cdma then the phone signal sucks because it hits the lte tower that's far away. Maybe try changing that And see if it helps the phone signal, its a long shot but worth a check.

Rockin my LG G2

So that definitelyfixed it. .. I've just lost my lte connect now... Hmm... So that I don't quite like.

 

[depechemodegurl]

So that definitelyfixed it. .. I've just lost my lte connect now... Hmm... So that I don't quite like.

Yeah, it's not a problem for me because I'm on WiFi at home so I don't need lte. But the cool thing about this phone in comparison to Samsung is it doesn't require a reboot every time you change it. My s3 reboot every time I changed it from lte to cdma.

Rockin my LG G2

 

[brian7751]

Try this app hopefully its compatible with your phone. I heard it wasn't compatible with every phone. But it worked on my note 3 and my 2013 droid maxx but i dont have a g2 to try it on. If it does work
scroll to the bottom click additional info
then click phone information
scroll to the middle and on drop down box
pick "cdma auto (PRL)" <This mode forces it to 3g
https://forums.androidcentral.com/e...ils?id=com.cc.signalinfo&hl=en&token=w11X4Zcp

 

[lizardking13]

Try this app hopefully its compatible with your phone. I heard it wasn't compatible with every phone. But it worked on my note 3 and my 2013 droid maxx but i dont have a g2 to try it on. If it does work
scroll to the bottom click additional info
then click phone information
scroll to the middle and on drop down box
pick "cdma auto (PRL)" <This mode forces it to 3g
https://forums.androidcentral.com/e...ils?id=com.cc.signalinfo&hl=en&token=-lmzJXeD

App sadly isn't compatible.

 

[brian7751]

that sucks im not sure if there is any other app that does the same thing

 

[brian7751]

try this app "IMPORTANT" when installed click decline on license agreement, then click ok ,then click cancel <Do this because if not it will try to install malware
this app is like a generic brand of the app i posted above but i was curious if it would work or not on your phone because it worked on mine

https://forums.androidcentral.com/e...id=com.brownent.switchit&hl=en&token=_bXWkV0K

 

[lizardking13]

try this app "IMPORTANT" when installed click decline on license agreement, then click ok ,then click cancel <Do this because if not it will try to install malware
this app is like a generic brand of the app i posted above but i was curious if it would work or not on your phone because it worked on mine

https://forums.androidcentral.com/e...id=com.brownent.switchit&hl=en&token=RtZ1xRCi

According to the comments, this also does not work with the G2. What are you searching for exactly?

 

[brian7751]

Shoot i forgot to ask if you were on 3g or 4g in your apartment. If you were on 4g the app would have been useful. If it would have worked to lock you to 3g (cdma auto) for better signal. (cdma only) should lock you to 1x so you would have data just very very slow data but definitely better signal then if you were on 4g. Sorry i forgot to ask this first.

 

[lizardking13]

Shoot i forgot to ask if you were on 3g or 4g in your apartment. If you were on 4g the app would have been useful. If it would have worked to lock you to 3g (cdma auto) for better signal. (cdma only) should lock you to 1x so you would have data just very very slow data but definitely better signal then if you were on 4g. Sorry i forgot to ask this first.

I was on 4g when I had the issue. As depechemodegurl pointed out, I can change from cdma/LTE to just cdma in the network settings. That solves the issue completely with the signal, it just takes away my LTE. That's no so bad because I have wifi, but it's a minor annoyance. Oh well!

 

[cwise2222]

Hello everyone I just purchased my LG g2 last night and so far I'm very happy with it. I've got spark, great data speeds, and a snappy device. However there is one complaint I have and I'm wondering if there is anything I can try to do to fix it.

In my apt I am getting very poor cell reception. One to two bars at best. When I go to signal strength is consistently lists at - 100 dbm or worse. My previous phone was a galaxy s2 also with sprint. I never had signal issues with it. Always 4 or 5 bars. Oh and one other thing! This is the weirdest part... The signal bars go up when I'm on a phone call, but I've already missed a couple of texts.

What I'm wondering is, does anyone know if there is a setting or something I can change to try to improve this? I have ready updated prl and profile and that gave me the amazing data connection, but cell connection is still bad.

The signal goes up when you make phone calls because the radio switches to the CDMA signal to place a call then once you are done with you call the radio latches back onto the LTE signal and shows the strength for that. The G2 will always shows bars for whatever signal your phone is connected to. Some phones do that, some always shows the voice signal strength regardless of what you are connected to. I'm betting your SII was the latter, plus the SII was a WiMax 4G phone so it wasn't picking up a 4GLTE signal. Confusing? You better believe it

I usually only have 1 to 3 bars of LTE but I still get good speed; the only downside being that after the Spark update my phone seems to think that it's not a good enough signal so it will flip me back to 3G, which is always at full strength.

 

[lizardking13]

The signal goes up when you make phone calls because the radio switches to the CDMA signal to place a call then once you are done with you call the radio latches back onto the LTE signal and shows the strength for that. The G2 will always shows bars for whatever signal your phone is connected to. Some phones do that, some always shows the voice signal strength regardless of what you are connected to. I'm betting your SII was the latter, plus the SII was a WiMax 4G phone so it wasn't picking up a 4GLTE signal. Confusing? You better believe it

I usually only have 1 to 3 bars of LTE but I still get good speed; the only downside being that after the Spark update my phone seems to think that it's not a good enough signal so it will flip me back to 3G, which is always at full strength.

That actually makes perfect sense. So let me ask you this, would being connected to the LTE signal cause any service issues? Like missed calls and/or texts?

 

[cwise2222]

That actually makes perfect sense. So let me ask you this, would being connected to the LTE signal cause any service issues? Like missed calls and/or texts?

Nope. The CDMA signal is always running in the background, so to speak, so when a call comes in just flips over to the CDMA signal. Now when you make a call there might be a 2 or 3 seconds delay as the radio switches the signal around. Same with texts, though the signal indicator won't flip around when you send or get a texts since it jus takes seconds to send out a text. The only thing different would be a multimedia message. That will come though and send out on the LTE signal.

 

[lizardking13]

Nope. The CDMA signal is always running in the background, so to speak, so when a call comes in just flips over to the CDMA signal. Now when you make a call there might be a 2 or 3 seconds delay as the radio switches the signal around. Same with texts, though the signal indicator won't flip around when you send or get a texts since it jus takes seconds to send out a text. The only thing different would be a multimedia message. That will come though and send out on the LTE signal.

Hey, that's great. I was worried I would start to miss calls or something.

 

[richardodn]

A couple of quick questions. First, is it possible that there's an Airave nearby you're connecting to? Second, have you gotten the spark update yet? If the answers are yes and no respectively, check this thread. http://forums.androidcentral.com/sprint-lg-g2/347650-lg-g2-airave.html

 

[lizardking13]

A couple of quick questions. First, is it possible that there's an Airave nearby you're connecting to? Second, have you gotten the spark update yet? If the answers are yes and no respectively, check this thread. http://forums.androidcentral.com/sprint-lg-g2/347650-lg-g2-airave.html

Well I know that I don't have an airwave...I guess I wouldn't have anyway of knowing if any other apt had one. But I did get the spark update. The data speeds in my house are amazing even though the LTE signal is weak.