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Bad signal on VZW GNex

Anyone else notice a much worse signal on the GNex than other VZW phones in the same location. I swapped from a GSM Gnex and i gotta say, im not impressed.

mastibeta said:
Anyone else notice a much worse signal on the GNex than other VZW phones in the same location. I swapped from a GSM Gnex and i gotta say, im not impressed.
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From what people have said of Samsung, they have bad CDMA radios in general while Moto has the best.

Ya I keep getting random 4g drops in my house, I usually fluctuate between 2 bars of 4g and 2 bars of 3g...
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I am. Compared to the Rezound I had for a couple weeks the dBm is -100 to -140 where the Rezound was -80.
Last night it kept dropping to 3G and would not get 4G back unless I rebooted.
Speedtest was about half what it normally was with the Rezound on 4G
This morning the -dBm is over -100 but the speedtest is about to where it was normally so I don't know.
I travel for work so I'm going to give it week and see how to behaves as I move around.
I really like this phone but I need it to be a phone first and if it drops calls or the 4G is this bad it's going to be a deal breaker.
I just did another speed test at -108 dBm and it's over 20MB down. I was getting 4MB down last night and the signal was all ranging all over the place while I was staying in the same spot.

I have to imagine the VZW network was getting pounded pretty hard last night with new adopters and phones being activated. I'd say give it a few days and check back into it

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Bad signal but still getting good speeds....
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I am experiencing this also coming from a Thunderbolt. Granted the Thunderbolt had flashed radio/Kernal/Rom's. Would that even matter? In this case will an updated radio provide a stronger signal or just increased reliability from being dropped? Maybe both? Idk. Anyone?

These are all in the exact same spot ranging from -100 to -140dBm

Glad I'm not the only one! The Rezound had way better connectivity and reception! Samsung sux in this dept. Ima give it a few days. Off topic here but where's the smart dialing?? I can't believe it didnt make it to ics!! Heh.
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I honestly think the phone is just reading your signal wrong. TBolt had this issue also and a modem fixed it somewhat.

psufan5 said:
I honestly think the phone is just reading your signal wrong. TBolt had this issue also and a modem fixed it somewhat.
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I drop signal at random though.

Would that cause it to drop down to 3G?

I have same signal i used to have on my rezound, i still get almost same speeds around 28 up and 18-20 down here in Minneapolis. rezound used to get 32 down and around 20 up, but i am thinking since verizon network was pounded yesterday so there will be some impact on speeds

Whatever new phone that comes out, you can always count on a bad signal thread.
I haven't noticed a difference in signal, but I do think it has better sound quality than my Droid Incredible.
Edit: I just did a speed test (3g) and it was very choppy and not great. I live across the street from a cell tower, so that is not good.

The Moto RAZR I returned yesterday to get this Samsung had much better reception.
I should have remembered that the Koreans can't engineer a good antenna. I'm very unhappy right now.

tsk138 said:
Would that cause it to drop down to 3G?
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Yeah, ill be sitting with 2 bars of 4g...then randomly goto 2 bars of 3g...cant get 4g back without cycling airplane mode.

shizat63 said:
The Moto RAZR I returned yesterday to get this Samsung had much better reception.
I should have remembered that the Koreans can't engineer a good antenna. I'm very unhappy right now.
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The GSM model holds signal great...had hspa+ all the time.

mastibeta said:
Yeah, ill be sitting with 2 bars of 4g...then randomly goto 2 bars of 3g...cant get 4g back without cycling airplane mode.
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I get that same issue, maybe THIS is why VZW delayed it?
:O

mastibeta said:
The GSM model holds signal great...had hspa+ all the time.
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i beg to differ

Maybe your coverage area? I am in Tampa...in a building, in my office, i get 5-6 megs down and 2-3 up...with my LTE GNex, i cant even hold a 4g signal, and when i do its 5 megs each way. Nothing earth shattering....but on top of it, that drops to 3g and stays there. The GSM, always had a connection.

Constant connection drop outs - should I get a rezound?

I got a Galaxy Nexus 9 days ago (along with a rezound for my wife).
I have been dropping connection constantly every since then (and I'm in a strong 4G area in the chicago burbs).
I had Verizon replace the sim card... but it didn't help.
Now they are sending me a new galaxy nexus.
They said that if this one doesn't work they'll wave the restocking fee and send me a new rezound.. I'm wondering if I should just go ahead an do that.
I'm worried that I'm going to end up being stuck with a lemon.
Is there anyone out there who never drops connection with this phone? I never dropped a connection with my incredible in almost 2 years and my wife's rezound has also been rock solid
UPDATE: I called Verizon and had them send me a new Galaxy Nexus and so far this one works flawlessly. I've had it up for almost 3 hours without a single drop on 4G. I'll update again after a few days, but this is a HUGE HUGE HUGE improvement. I couldn't go more than 20-30 minutes max without drops before and my phone would often show that it was off the network in the battery gauge over 50% of the time. So for those of you having this issue make verizon send you a new phone. It appears some of them are simply defective

I went from a rezound to the nexus and I'll say the only thing I liked about the rezound better was the fact that the signal was WAY stronger. I drop calls constantly now and my 4g is actually slower on the nexus... kinda sucks BC its a great phone otherwise
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If you are comfortable with or if rooting isn't problem for you try flashing new radio like UGKL1 or XXKL1 or KRKL1. But actually first flash 4.0.3 based ROM and then one of those.
Yes other people also had problems with their connections being droped, but AFAIK 4.0.3 + one of above mentioned radios work for most of people.

!crazy said:
If you are comfortable with or if rooting isn't problem for you try flashing new radio like UGKL1 or XXKL1 or KRKL1. But actually first flash 4.0.3 based ROM and then one of those.
Yes other people also had problems with their connections being droped, but AFAIK 4.0.3 + one of above mentioned radios work for most of people.
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He is correct flashling the UGKL1 radio fixed my constant loss of data.

I already tried flashing the leaked radio. I did not flash full 4.0.3 however.. Maybe I'll try that on the new phone.
Thanks for the tip

Sounds more like a busted phone to me. My phone stopped doing that after Verizon came back up from that last outage. My husband's Nexus behaves better as well.
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That would be helpful if he were running a GSM Nexus, but if you actually read the OP, you'd see that he wasn't.

I had a terrible singal on my gnex (VZW) when I got it. I tried the 4.0.3 radios which proved a marginal improvement. I ended up reverting the phone to stock and going back to VZW. They replaced my SIM card which left with only brief occasional drops over long black outs that I was having before. After getting a new SIM card I updated the radios again to 4.0.3 and it works flawlessly (3G- I haven't re enabled 4G yet). I think this phone is amazing hardware and personally would very much avoid going to the Rezound. According to VZW, the phone should work but it has seemed to have some issues.
I'm going to turn on 4G now, so if you are curious about that PM me and I'll let you know.
UPDATE: Turned on 4G which locked instantly. I checked my phone a while later to learn that I was without service (data and phone) for 10+ minutes solid. Apparently 4G is the issue for me, at least at work. My signal strengths aren't the best here.

My first Nexus had this problem. Swapping the SIM card didn't help, so VZW replaced the phone. The replacement Nexus doesn't have the problem at all.

Star this issue and hope for the best.
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=24345
I have the same issue and I am waiting for a response.
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I'm on my second Nexus and sim card, network connectivity is pretty bad. My signal at home is -100 most of the time and at a pizza place in the same neighborhood a few blocks away it's -75 to -80, I don't get it. This afternoon I charged my Nexus up and power cycled it at 6:00 PM. At 10:15, I checked the battery and had not had a network connection for over 3 hours and Cell Standby was at 57% and Screen was at 25%. I power cycled the phone again and got 4 texts sent to me hours before. Should I get a Rezound or a Razr Maxx or wait for a software update and hope that takes care of it. Any advise is welcome!

I got a new GN from verizon.. WAY better.. i updated the first post

cell standby a hardware issue???

long time android user, and my GF just upgraded to her first smartphone to the galaxy nexus, same phone i have. and the battery sucked, she had 50% left and went to work and within 2 hours it was dead, so i unlocked/rooted. and installed aokp 3 milestone along with franco krenel to the latest milestone. same rom and kernel i have, and i get atleast 14+ hours on regular use nothing turned off.
her battery status looks like it usally the cell standby to blame, could this be a hardware issue? i completly wiped data/dalvik/battery and did new install, going to try again flashing back to complete stock. but could this be a hardware issue?
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Turn off 4g.

have you checked if you both have the same radio? you can try that
also maybe check hows reception on her workplace

So... she had bad signal. Phone sat there trying to get 4G / hang on to a bad signal. Will drain the battery 100% to 0% in a few hours if you let it do that.

no i haven't tried turning 4g off yet, shouldn't have to i wouldn't think. she lives in seattle and i live 30miles further north of from her, and i don't have a problem with 4g conection. but i'll try that just to see if it gives a different result.

Well I can tell you right now, AOKP gets absolutely HORRID battery life. Try BAMF.
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Download juice defender and set it to balanced. You will see a HUGE difference with standby drain.

If you have a third of the time without signal, I would expect energy to drain a lot, as the radio will keep trying to find a signal and consume way more energy than if it is connected and in stand by.

Smokeey said:
Well I can tell you right now, AOKP gets absolutely HORRID battery life. Try BAMF.
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Nothing wrong with AOKP battery

yea im useing AOKP and get great battery on my phone, but not hers, thats why i was wondering if it COULD be a hardware issue, or if this is always a software issue.

Update to 4.04 u will get battery like this.
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Sdobron said:
Nothing wrong with AOKP battery
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Ditto that. It's easy to blame a particular ROM for one's battery woes, but the truth of the matter is it's invariably something else causing the drain.
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Her signal is destroying the battery, turn off 4g and if she only does the Facebook thing and messaging do the following
I believe there is/was a setting to turn off mobile data when screen is off
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BrianDigital said:
I believe there is/was a setting to turn off mobile data when screen is off
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Constantly turning on/off mobile data when the screen is off will more than likely drain the battery more than leaving it on. Not to mention that you'll get no background sync or notifications.

teggy6 said:
no i haven't tried turning 4g off yet, shouldn't have to i wouldn't think. she lives in seattle and i live 30miles further north of from her, and i don't have a problem with 4g conection. but i'll try that just to see if it gives a different result.
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No I think you have to turn it off if its right on that fringe area. Plus lte networks and radios are very immature ans have a lot of years to get fully optimized and tweaked to match current cell coverage performance. You're using a brand new network technology that has a long way to go. Beta testing.

Battery life 1st impressions

Does it take awhile for this battery to settle in? It's just been 2.5 hours since my first charge and I'm already down to 90%. All I did was send a few texts and receive a couple of short calls. Can't remember if I experienced this on other phones but after hearing about how great the S3's battery life is, I'm a little disappointed.

I think it's great. It's a lot better than my Epic 4g Touch, that's for sure.
And 10% per 2.5 hours is pretty good IMO.. That's 2.5 * 10 = 25 hours of battery. That's pretty sick lol.
Just remember to turn off wifi/bluetooth when not in use, and turn off LTE if it's not active in your area (so the phone doesn't keep searching for the 4G signal).

Yeah, wait for it to settle. This phone definitely has the best battery out of everything I've owned...and I've had a few phones, believe me lol

How is your signal? Have you been in an area with wifi? Radio signal has been the biggest issue for me...
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How is your signal? Have you been in an area with wifi? Radio signal has been the biggest issue for me...
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I've been on wifi the whole time.

I sometimes get more than 2 days on a charge. I try not to use phone while charging, causes inefficient charging(supposedly).
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I must be doing something very wrong. I really got horrible battery life in my phone and I only got 4 apps installed: xda, rage of bahamut, Facebook, and power amp. The ones that can be on sync I turn it off. I'm currently running on CM10 but was on stock for about 3 weeks and blazer for about 2 weeks. All with similar battery life. 2 hrs of screen on time with 13 hrs on battery. On my epic touch I could do 5 hrs of screen on with 24hr battery and evo lte 7 hrs of screen on and 18+ on battery. I've already switched batteries so I know its not a defective one. I got no email syncing and brightness is always set on lowest unless I'm outside its at 50%. I will try to post a picture of better battery stats, CPU spy, and see if anyone can help me figure out what I can do to improve it. Really disliking battery life right now and hope it will get better
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I personally just went 26 hours with 3 hours screen on time in CM10. That's way better than my Evo 4G could do, so I'm extremely happy with my battery life by comparison. This phone has been awesome for me.
Edit: That time includes leaving Wifi and mobile data enabled at all times, with data mode set to CDMA/LTE. I also left everything syncing like normal.

Coming from a EVO LTE so far my battery life been unimpressive. Loving the phone, but not digging the battery.
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Not bad for me. Moderate to heavy usage.
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seems much better than my og evo running anthrax

This phone is right on par with my iPhone 4's battery (which is a beast). If you think this battery is underwhelming, you obviously haven't had the original Evo 4G lol
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4.4.2 to 4.4.4 battery consumption

I have an unrooted M919 which is running 4.4.2 (FNB4). Problem I have is when LTE is on, and I have about 2 bars signal in my room, the battery drains quicker than when the phone is only on H+ /WCDMA.
My question, will the 4.4.4 firmware improve my battery comsumption?
Thanks

In general LTE is known to consume a lot of battery I recommend u stick to H+/WCDMA it what I do .
I doubt the new firmware will have any battery improvement
LTE alone is a battery drainer

LTE is not that bad a drainer, its low reception that will consume a lot of power. The update may not help much, but doesn't hurt to try

I have already packed my M919. I will return it... it makes no sense keeping it it I still have to disable LTE... I will just keep my stellar i9505
The reason I bought the M919 is to have LTE, but I never expected it to suck my battery that fast. I went out with the family to do some shopping this afternoon, from 4pm with 75% battery ( I have rebooted the phone, and greenified everything I can), then after dinner at 8pm, I had 35% left on the battery.

Unless you were actively using it the whole time there is no way it should drain that fast. Did you check battery stats? I wouldn't give up that fast but it's up to you

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I have already packed my M919. I will return it... it makes no sense keeping it it I still have to disable LTE... I will just keep my stellar i9505
The reason I bought the M919 is to have LTE, but I never expected it to suck my battery that fast. I went out with the family to do some shopping this afternoon, from 4pm with 75% battery ( I have rebooted the phone, and greenified everything I can), then after dinner at 8pm, I had 35% left on the battery.
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That kind of drain is not caused by LTE.

+1. Even in marginal signal areas where it is spending lots of energy hunting for signal, it should not drain that fast.
Definitely investigate what is causing power drain. At that rate, it's not LTE or "hunting for LTE" that is causing it.

LOL.. I hate you guys... I will have to unpack the phone and start again then....
But seriously, I have used all Samsung phones... look at my signature LOL... I have never had this kind of battery drain... but I will give it another try, but I am not optimistic because I have reflashed the firmware twice, and have reset the device about 4x already with the same issue...
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I also always disbale things like google+, and other samsung bloatwarez... so nothing really sinisterly running in the background

Better battery stats will solve the issue..

serio22 said:
Better battery stats will solve the issue..
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Yes I use that, and I don't see anything running wild... I am flashing NH7 now....

What about the stock battery stats? And also do you have Google now disabled?

These are what I habitually disable:
(I am surprized, "SNS" which is related to facebook and twitter is not on the NH7)
I don't have facebook, twitter and other social media apps installed....
The 4G signal you see in my screenshots is because I only used WCDMA connection at that time.
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Just an update, I went out this morning for about 2 hrs. Only time I used the phone was when I received a call which lasted about a minute, used the calculator once for less than 30 seconds, and the only times the screen was on was whenever I checked is if I have LTE signal...
I notice, the "Wifi" is "On" but I am sure I have turned it off. "Wifi calling" is also disabled in case you ask...

Go into WiFi, settings, advanced, and disable always scanning. I forgot about this one, it is a battery drainer for sure. You should get much better battery now

serio22 said:
Go into WiFi, settings, advanced, and disable always scanning. I forgot about this one, it is a battery drainer for sure. You should get much better battery now
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I have to admit, I missed that bit.. LOL... ok let's see what happens in the next few hours....

Good diagnostics ongoing! :good:
One other thought: perhaps the battery itself is not up to spec, and so "30%" of your battery isn't the same number of milliAmperes-hours it should be.
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Good diagnostics ongoing! :good:
One other thought: perhaps the battery itself is not up to spec, and so "30%" of your battery isn't the same number of milliAmperes-hours it should be.
Marc
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Thanks...but I don't think so because I am using 3 different kinds of batteries. One from my i9505 and one spare, and the one from the M919... all the same results.