Signal Issues on the S3

[trivor]

I've been having some problems (yes, I know about Samsung's rep with Antennas) with missed/dropped calls on my Verizon S3 (never had problems with my other phones - Dinc 2, Palm Pixi or LG Decoy (feature phone)). I finally figured the problem might be with the rollout of LTE in my small town. I've been seeing intermittent 4G LTE signals for the last couple of months (pretty much the entire time I've had the S3) but the speeds were slow. I finally decided to use Phone Info (from the app store) to switch off the LTE Radio and use CDMA (auto PRL) and my signal has improved by at least 20 db in practically every place I check it. I believe it could be because the LTE is not fully rolled out (supposed to be Oct 16 according to the local Verizon rep) and the phone is having trouble switching between CDMA, LTE, and EVDO. If anyone has any further thoughts on this please let me know because making and receiving phone calls is still important to me (I know, I'm a small minority). For now, until the full rollout of LTE in my town is official and turned on I'm going to leave the LTE radio off (by the way, I went to a town that has a full deployment and got 10-15 up and 10 down).

 

[PsYcHoNeWb]

I've been having some problems (yes, I know about Samsung's rep with Antennas) with missed/dropped calls on my Verizon S3 (never had problems with my other phones - Dinc 2, Palm Pixi or LG Decoy (feature phone)). I finally figured the problem might be with the rollout of LTE in my small town. I've been seeing intermittent 4G LTE signals for the last couple of months (pretty much the entire time I've had the S3) but the speeds were slow. I finally decided to use Phone Info (from the app store) to switch off the LTE Radio and use CDMA (auto PRL) and my signal has improved by at least 20 db in practically every place I check it. I believe it could be because the LTE is not fully rolled out (supposed to be Oct 16 according to the local Verizon rep) and the phone is having trouble switching between CDMA, LTE, and EVDO. If anyone has any further thoughts on this please let me know because making and receiving phone calls is still important to me (I know, I'm a small minority). For now, until the full rollout of LTE in my town is official and turned on I'm going to leave the LTE radio off (by the way, I went to a town that has a full deployment and got 10-15 up and 10 down).

Your not the small majority lol. In the end this is a phone meant to send and receive phone calls. I was in the same situation as you for the past couple of months before Verizon finally pushed full 4G to my area and when it was half here if you want to put it that way I could be on one side of my room with full 3G and then the other side with 1-2 bars of 4G. Luckily now I have full 4G most of the time where I go around here. I can see how the switching would cause issues since there is a slight gap of service time when you go from 3G to 4G but it should be close to instant. If you are in an area where there is lower service to begin with then I can understand why.

I would stick with the route that you are going. If you can make and receive phone calls with 4G disabled, leave it that way until you get full 4G in your area.

 

[trivor]

Thanks - I'll give an update once LTE is official in my town.

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