I happen to live in an area where I seldom get a signal stronger than 60% outside my home. Within my home, I run between 10% and 30% signal. Due to this I tend to get a lot of dropped calls. I have reported this "valley" in my city as being in a weak signal area for AT&T. Most of it began with 3G. I have now resolved that I should purchase a signal amplifier with an omni antenna that can be installed in my attic that would have about a 35-40 foot cable running to the inside unit. As I understand it, that should closely resemble an outside signal.
Anyone have any suggestions on home cell phone amplifiers that will handle multiple calls simultaneously? It obviously is not totally an AT&T issue because I have several friends on differing networks that have the same problem in my house.
Any help would be appreciated.
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Any one know if it is possible to force a 3G connection, my house is located right between where 2 towers overlap, as I pull up to my house in the car, I have a 3G connection, but a soon as I walk into the house I can see the 1 tower drop off and the other pick up, problem is the stronger tower is only an EDGE connection. I bought an 8db gain antenna, but that just made the EDGE connection stronger.
Shy of moving my house 1 block over, does anyone have any ideas.......?
did you try forcing it to wcdma only ? were you able to keep the signal?
did it, works great, thanks
i have a pretty poor signal (3g and 4g) inside my apartment. 4g doesn't come in at all really, and 3g is about 3 bars at most, sometimes it briefly goes to 4 bars. i live on the ground floor of an old brick building, but i'm willing to try any tricks to get a 4g signal indoors (making a ledge for the phone up by the ceiling? by a window?). if i stand in front of my window on the sidewalk i get a fine 4g signal, but i don't want to set my phone on the sidewalk outside to wireless tether
has anyone experimented with any techniques to get a good signal? i heard 4g has a more difficult time penetrating through walls and insulated glass (i just have old windows with 1 single thin pane of glass). is there any way to position the phone to best get a signal (avoiding contact with certain parts of the phone? where is the 4g antenna specifically within the phone, at the top?)? can i somehow make an antenna somehow and place it outside my window and connect it to my phone in some way? are there sprint indoor antenna booster devices of some kind?
forgive me in advance if this has been covered... yes i did try searching but unfortunately when the device itself has "4g" in the name im getting a lot of invalid results
thanks!
EVO Brethren,
My signal will bounce from 4 bars to NONE and back to 2 then 4. Apparently it does so during calls too because I can't talk more than a few minutes before it'll drop. At work it'll bounce from 2 to NONE all day which just drains my battery like mad.
I'm using the latest radio and have tried reflashing it. I'm pretty sure this has always happened even on the older radio. Is Sprint service really this terrible or is there something I can do to fix this?
I can't help you with your problem, other than to say that it won't happen when you are within good service coverage.
I have the same hyperactive signal bar inside my home where I get terrible service (3 bars max when the moon is just right). The signal with jump to full bars and then drop to one or zero.
I would assume that it's the radio trying to boost your signal by cranking up the power. It probably works for a second before the phone realizes that to maintain more than 3 bars of service, the radio would require a nuclear reactor to power it, and therefore promptly lowers the power to the radio.
I have no idea, thats just my guess. When I'm in great coverage it has no problem holding bars, bad coverage - crazy dancing routine.
I work in a large office building that just happens to be in a 4G LTE coverage area. Unfortunately due to the size of the building and amount of concrete between me and the outside I get little to no coverage in the building. Its actually funny because I got better reception in the building before the LTE towers went up, back in January. Anyway, I've noticed that as long as I leave my screen turned off, my phone will get a couple bars and 3G. Soon as I turn on the screen the bars I have slowly drop to nothing, but I don't (usually) go to "Searching for signal". Even if I only have one or two bars with the screen on I can't make calls or send/receive txts. Anybody else experience this? I've tried several modems and it happens on AOSP and TW ROMs.
Curious if anyone here has used any yagi (or other style) antennas to pick up a T-Mobile signal in poor signal areas. Was trying to get my dad hooked up with high speed internet... he's very close to getting 35mbps (end of the driveway), but down the road, through the trees, little to no signal. He has a metal tower up (with wave or some crap, 3mpbs) so i was thinking i could mount a yagi antenna up there and point it towards the tower... just not sure exactly what to get, and how to interface with the phone (d851). Thanks for any help.
(i did climb up the tower with an extension cord and one of T-Mobiles "window" unit range extenders... got about 3 bars up there, but need a waterproof, more powerful solution, as the speeds were fairly low even with the increased signal, was just thinking yagi style could do the trick).