please help

[NexusNick123]

I have a nexus 5 on at&t when I got the phone I had LTE now i barely have one bar any one know why? :-\

 

[zedorda]

In store they have increased signal strange because of transmitters in the building. You might just have bad signal in your area.

 

[Jonneh]

Because signal depends on what location you're in. Are your referring to poor signal at home? Work? College? Is the signal better at one of these places when compared to the other places? Which state do you live in? There are hundreds of variables to this question, unfortunately. Perhaps AT&T is not any good in your specific area.

 

[NexusNick123]

Because signal depends on what location you're in. Are your referring to poor signal at home? Work? College? Is the signal better at one of these places when compared to the other places? Which state do you live in? There are hundreds of variables to this question, unfortunately. Perhaps AT&T is not any good in your specific area.

I have bad connection at home. But its the same at work I'll keep an eye out and write back tomorrow and see if I see a change.

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[Shilohcane]

I have a nexus 5 on at&t when I got the phone I had LTE now i barely have one bar any one know why? :-\

Well the N5 is a unlocked phone so fire your Network provider. I spent the better part of my last two years under contract with AT&T after they moved a tower. What I was left with was a weak signal where I had to walk about a 150 feet to have a poor connection voice call in major city in South Florida. Everytime I called AT&T to complain they wanted to sell me a device to connect to my Comcast internet that was like $200. I was paying close to $110 a month for AT&T and one day a friend with Metro PCS comes over and has the nerve to talk on his cheap flip phone inside my house where my AT&T iPhone 4 would barley even ring. What ticked me off was he was paying $40 a month for unlimited service and no taxes and I was paying $110 for AT&T that I had to stand down the block in the rain to talk to people.

I FIRED AT&T since their were other networks that worked better at my home and they were even cheaper. Hell will freeze over before I even have another phone contract where I can't fire my service provider when they sux.

Forget about the bars that aren't that accurate tell us the dBm & asu signal numbers your phone has... Go to Setting > About Phone > Status and tell us your Signal Strength that is dBm and asu. A mobile phone signal (or reception) is the signal strength (measured in dBm) received by the mobile phone from the cellular network (on the downlink). Arbitrary Strength Unit (ASU) is an integer value proportional to the received signal strength measured by the mobile phone.

 

[NexusNick123]

Okay the dBm is -101 and asu is 9

Well the N5 is a unlocked phone so fire your Network provider. I spent the better part of my last two years under contract with AT&T after they moved a tower. What I was left with was a weak signal where I had to walk about a 150 feet to have a poor connection voice call in major city in South Florida. Everytime I called AT&T to complain they wanted to sell me a device to connect to my Comcast internet that was like $200. I was paying close to $110 a month for AT&T and one day a friend with Metro PCS comes over and has the nerve to talk on his cheap flip phone inside my house where my AT&T iPhone 4 would barley even ring. What ticked me off was he was paying $40 a month for unlimited service and no taxes and I was paying $110 for AT&T that I had to stand down the block in the rain to talk to people.

I FIRED AT&T since their were other networks that worked better at my home and they were even cheaper. Hell will freeze over before I even have another phone contract where I can't fire my service provider when they sux.

Forget about the bars that aren't that accurate tell us the dBm & asu signal numbers your phone has... Go to Setting > About Phone > Status and tell us your Signal Strength that is dBm and asu. A mobile phone signal (or reception) is the signal strength (measured in dBm) received by the mobile phone from the cellular network (on the downlink). Arbitrary Strength Unit (ASU) is an integer value proportional to the received signal strength measured by the mobile phone.