Verizon looking into the signal strength issue, software coming

[mozy]

Re: Verizon looking into the signal strength issue, software comi

I wasn't having signal issues till today when my GN suddenly got zero bars for data and phone at home. I rebooted a few times and mostly got no service. At work my GN has signal strength of -100 dBm and 40 asu and my droid X has -78 dBm and 0 asu. What do these numbers mean?

 

[pauldroidr2d2]

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Yeah, but they are also defended by certain people *coughPaulDroidR2D2cough* no matter what they do, so it all evens out

Continue to speak out of ignorance Monkey. You clearly do not know jack about me or my opinion of VZW.

 

[skiddingus]

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I would have to say that the voice signal strength, although it looks low, seems to be fine on the Nexus. I have not had trouble making or holding calls on several country roads where signal is usually a problem.
The 4g signal is another story. I almost always have little or no 4g signal. According to the Verizon maps, my house is well withing the 4g coverage area but I can't get a 4g signal there. I need to get another 4g phone to see if it is a Nexus problem.

 

[nkd]

Probably is. I have 30 days to send back the razr to amazon. Razr never lost 4g at home and nexus lost three times last night. If update doesn't resolve it, I might be sending it back. I am in very good 4g coverage. There is certainly signal issues with this phone. The problem is that it didn't fall back to 3g and I had no signal until it connected to 4g again. Almost 5 mins.

Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using Tapatalk

 

[merx9]

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Is anyone getting a loud screeching noise where they have to disconnect call because it is so bad? It doesn't happen to me all the time, but it does happen about 40% of my calls. Is this the signal issue or something else?

 

[Revolutionary]

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Is anyone getting a loud screeching noise where they have to disconnect call because it is so bad? It doesn't happen to me all the time, but it does happen about 40% of my calls. Is this the signal issue or something else?

You are not the only one, merx -- but it doesn't seem to be widespread (just you and me so far?):

http://forums.androidcentral.com/ve...onic-static-during-calls-do-i-have-lemon.html

 

[anthony2558]

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The screeching thing happens to me to... So does the signal thing... GNex was sitting next to thunderbolt and Incredible where we put our phones to get 1x (only place to get service @ work, concrete building) Gnex no luck on signal, 1X and spotty 3G for thunderbolt and incredible!!!!!!! January 15th is coming quick and if no fix Thunderbolt is going back on plan and contract renewal date is going back to 08/03/12 also.................

 

[Droid800]

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how does this make any sense.. I dont live within 50 miles of lte coverage.. and I have my phone set to CDMA only.. how does the nexus only show -dbm in LTE?

Read again. He's comparing a Nexus to a RAZR. The RAZR shows CDMA dBm, even while on LTE. The Nexus shows the dBm of whatever the fastest network it has available. So, you can't compare the dBm of a Nexus to a RAZR if both are on LTE.

 

[Premium1]

Re: Verizon looking into the signal strength issue, software comi

LEAK: New CDMA/LTE radios for the Galaxy Nexus

 

[Droid800]

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No you are wrong. I am talking about comparing LTE to LTE signal bro. When I turn on LTE signal on Razr it goes up to -85dbm and when I switch to 3g it goes to -70dbm sitting in the same location. Razr does not display 3g signal when 4g lte is on, that is just stupid. I even use the opensignal app to double check.

Nope. You're completely wrong. Pre-4.0 Android has no way of reporting the LTE signal to the OS. No dBm, no signal bar display, nothing.

The RAZR cannot display the dBm of its LTE signal. It ALWAYS displays its CDMA signal. That is a limitation of Gingerbread. So when you compare the dBm of a RAZR on LTE to the dBm of a Nexus on LTE, the numbers mean absolutely nothing because they are not comparing the same signal.

 

[Droid800]

Re: Verizon looking into the signal strength issue, software comi

Probably is. I have 30 days to send back the razr to amazon. Razr never lost 4g at home and nexus lost three times last night. If update doesn't resolve it, I might be sending it back. I am in very good 4g coverage. There is certainly signal issues with this phone. The problem is that it didn't fall back to 3g and I had no signal until it connected to 4g again. Almost 5 mins.

Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using Tapatalk

There isn't a 4G signal issue. That has been laid to rest by people more knowledgeable than anyone here.

The issues have to do with 4G/3G handoff, and the threshold at which the system switches to 3G.

 

[LangHoo]

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LEAK: New CDMA/LTE radios for the Galaxy Nexus

Yep, those are the new radios for 4.0.3 that Anandtech referred to:

 

[Premium1]

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No you are wrong. I am talking about comparing LTE to LTE signal bro. When I turn on LTE signal on Razr it goes up to -85dbm and when I switch to 3g it goes to -70dbm sitting in the same location. Razr does not display 3g signal when 4g lte is on, that is just stupid. I even use the opensignal app to double check.

No you are wrong. Go back and read the article. You would then see that the nexus is the only current lte phone that shows lte strength in the dbm reading. The others that are not on ICS are showing cdma dbm.

 

[BiNGE]

Re: Verizon looking into the signal strength issue, software comi

LEAK: New CDMA/LTE radios for the Galaxy Nexus

I think the ROOT/Hacks sub forum would welcome this info! Testing now on a demo device.

 

[Premium1]

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Yep, those are the new radios for 4.0.3 that Anandtech referred to:
Click to view quoted image

Hopefully the 4.0.3 will be rolling out soon then.

 

[420board]

Re: Verizon looking into the signal strength issue, software comi

LEAK: New CDMA/LTE radios for the Galaxy Nexus

Schweeett! Can't wait for these updated radios to come out, help improve my signal and battery life just a bit more!

 

[LangHoo]

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I like this quote from your link: "I have two GNex's and sitting next to each other the signal went from 103db to 83 on the new radio, that is huge!"

 

[Premium1]

Re: Verizon looking into the signal strength issue, software comi

Schweeett! Can't wait for these updated radios to come out, help improve my signal and battery life just a bit more!

And then all the whiners can quit posting multiple threads complaining lol.

 

[Johnly]

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So much for the signal hate theory

 

[JoeUserTX]

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And then all the whiners can quit posting multiple threads complaining lol.

That'd be nice...