SIII Reception Issues?

jp2304

Member
Jun 27, 2012
5
0
0
We finally got the 3 SIII 32G we ordered last Tuesday. Since receiving them the only issue I have found is there appears to be some sort of RF/Reception Issue. At first I thought mine might be defective but all 3 appear to have the same issue. 2 of them have replaced EVO's and 1 was a new activation on our business account.
The issues I have found are as follows:
1. My phone either gets no signal or roams at my house where the EVO had 2 bars.
2. SIII goes into roam or no signal where EVO and prior Sprint Phones didn't.
3. We have a Sprint In-Building Repeater that when on gives full signal. When off we would get 1 bar. When I turned it off all 3 SIII's would have no signal.
4. 1 of the SIII's was at the same location as a SII over the weekend. The SII had 2 bars but the SIII had no Service.
5. I have also noticed the 3G Data is slower compared to the EVO I had for the last 2 years.

If it was just 1 phone with this issue I would think it might be defective but not with all 3 of them?

This has been the only negative I have seen with the phone.

The Battery is better compared to the EVO. I now have enough memory with the 32g and don't have to delete things anymore.

Overall I would say the SIII is a great phone as long as they come out with something to resolve the RF Issue I am finding.

Anyone also seeing this issue on their SIII?
 
Sorry to hear about your reception issues. My reception isn't all that great either but the EVO LTE also has reception issues. There's a long thread about it in the Sprint forums. However, the reception on the S3 is slightly worse than the EVO LTE. So you may have better luck with the EVO LTE. As far as fixing it, I'm not even sure it can be fixed. Supposedly, bad radios has always been an issue with Samsung phones, and I don't think they ever released any fixes for them. I just ran a speedtest on my S3 and got the following results. Very sad. On the plus side, it is very simple to change prls on the phone so I can force roam on Verizon.
 
I will probably stay with the SIII since I really like the phone.

Sent from my Samsung SIII using Tapatalk 2
 

Trending Posts

Forum statistics

Threads
956,425
Messages
6,968,181
Members
3,163,541
Latest member
MizzBizzzzz