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Why such BAD signal?

Okay. I thought I didn't have stellar service in my area. (Bounces from 0 to 2 bars, depending) Now my tutor, who has a DX, pulls 3-4 bars where I get none! Same exact time, same exact place! WTF gives HTC!
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What radio are you using? I noticed a full bar increase when I flashed updated radio

Im stock, unrooted. So whatever they give out stock. Im waiting for OTA gingerbread to root.
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3 or 4 bars seems extreme. Could be a hardware defect. My buddy has DX and we both get no service in my basement and terrible service upstairs. So it's not universal.
Edit: could be your phones are on different towers. I know I seen a thread about configuring what tower you connect to.

I have this problem too! My signal sucks most of tthe time. When im in the 18th floor of a building in Boston I get like 1 or 2 bars. Which radio is best to flash? I've never flashed a radio before
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Thing is guys you can't go by the bars they can be misleading....although the icredible does have a know problem with bad signal but if you really want to know your signal strength go to main menu, then go down to about phone, then click on network signal that's the real signal..... -85 to -75 is about average
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rosser725 said:
I have this problem too! My signal sucks most of tthe time. When im in the 18th floor of a building in Boston I get like 1 or 2 bars. Which radio is best to flash? I've never flashed a radio before
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Bars are meaningless. They are not a good indicator of signal strength. Follow the instructions posted by newtoroot to see what your signal strength actually is.
The best radio is the one that gives you the best combination of signal and battery usage. No one can tell you which one will work best on your individual phone in your specific location. The only way to know which one will work best is to test drive each one for a few days and se which suits your needs best.

My signal is -91 dbm. Total crap. :/
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Bud my signal is -95 right now leave it on that screen and walk around and watch how it changes
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I'm haven't moved for an hour and it sits at -91 dbm. Wtf.
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Just switched from 09.01 radio to 11.19 and I my signal went from -75dBm to -69dBm. Not a huge improvement but still an improvement.

A word of caution: BE EXTREMELY CAREFUL IF YOU TRY TO FLASH A NEW RADIO. THE INCREDIBLE I HOLD IN MY HAND IS BECAUSE I FLASHED A RADIO AND BRICKED MY OLD HTC ERIS
Sorry for yelling, but seriously be carefull.

because your holding it the wrong way.
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try a prl updated. *22899 i have had better reception now that they updated it

synisterwolf said:
because your holding it the wrong way.
(sorry i couldn't resist)
try a prl updated. *22899 i have had better reception now that they updated it
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Is this *22899 any different from the regular *228 press option 2?

*22899 seemed to work for me
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JWhetstone02 said:
Is this *22899 any different from the regular *228 press option 2?
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Yes, it just skips the automated voice and jumps into the music (updating)

This phone definitely has some kind of signal issue or something. Especially with SMS. I have to resend messages all the time for "general SMS error" is usually what it says. Quite frustrating and ill probably end up with a phone that's been smashed into a million bits someday.
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broons said:
This phone definitely has some kind of signal issue or something. Especially with SMS. I have to resend messages all the time for "general SMS error" is usually what it says. Quite frustrating and ill probably end up with a phone that's been smashed into a million bits someday.
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Had this same EXACT problem! You're gonna need a new phone bro....
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(Q)Slow data w/4 bars

I have 4 full bars and my 3g keeps dropping, not fully connecting, and downloads around 5kilobytes a sec. I went from cm7 back to my nand of stock sense and still have the problem. I can barely load xda.
Anyone got any ideas why?
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Maybe there is some kind of outage where you live?
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Yeah what above said. I get 2 bars avg in my house and get about 800kbps, 4 bars I get 1mbps, They may be working on the towers out there also

Any chance you might have given them reason to throttle you data connection down?
I also experience dramatic drops in data speeds at peak times and it is location specific where I live. At 2300 in my neighborhood I get great speeds, but at the same time at work (which is full of people still awake and likely using their network) I get really bogged down.
Either a possible factor?
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I think the reason why people get horrible speeds at work is because there is probably too much electronic interference.
But then again, when someone says "work" I imagine someone sitting in a cubicle.
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bluedegeon said:
Yeah what above said. I get 2 bars avg in my house and get about 800kbps, 4 bars I get 1mbps, They may be working on the towers out there also
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Interesting, 4 bars at my place equals 1.5 to 2.5 mpbs and 1 bar equals around 7-800 kbps.

Kaze105 said:
Interesting, 4 bars at my place equals 1.5 to 2.5 mpbs and 1 bar equals around 7-800 kbps.
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TheAtheistReverend said:
Any chance you might have given them reason to throttle you data connection down?
I also experience dramatic drops in data speeds at peak times and it is location specific where I live. At 2300 in my neighborhood I get great speeds, but at the same time at work (which is full of people still awake and likely using their network) I get really bogged down.
Either a possible factor?
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besides the "3G hack" is there anyway to prevent from being throttled on a non rooted 2.3.3 dinc2?

I was under the impression that even with the hack you can get throttled
But I also understand you need to be using GBs/month to make that happen. Most people would have a hard time getting there.
I stream Pandora ALL the time, and I usually get between 1 and 2 GBs of useage. I'm also using my phone for most of my internet browsing.

Avelnan said:
I think the reason why people get horrible speeds at work is because there is probably too much electronic interference.
But then again, when someone says "work" I imagine someone sitting in a cubicle.
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Well my work is far from a cubicle....
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knipp21 said:
Well my work is far from a cubicle....
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Same here.
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There's a lot of things that will influence your throughput. Signal strength is only one of a few. Signal quality and available bandwidth will also influence it. A strong signal with a bit of noise will cause problems.
Try *228 option 2, then reboot, and see if it helps.

nimdae said:
There's a lot of things that will influence your throughput. Signal strength is only one of a few. Signal quality and available bandwidth will also influence it. A strong signal with a bit of noise will cause problems.
Try *228 option 2, then reboot, and see if it helps.
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Did that and I lost signal indefinitely till I did a full reset.
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Kaze105 said:
Interesting, 4 bars at my place equals 1.5 to 2.5 mpbs and 1 bar equals around 7-800 kbps.
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There's only two verizon towers in my city if that helps lol. I don't know much about towers but I know one of them is 4G because we have 4G here

I live in Orlando area, and I'm having issues with 3G today as well. Phone keeps trying to sync also. I think Verizon may have network issues today. I haven't installed any new apps, and I only use 1 widget that syncs, which is Twitter.

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I live in Orlando area, and I'm having issues with 3G today as well. Phone keeps trying to sync also. I think Verizon may have network issues today. I haven't installed any new apps, and I only use 1 widget that syncs, which is Twitter.
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I'm in Cali and had the same problem late last night. I think they are doing something with the towers cause my signal is fine now.

I'm getting throttled and it sucks. I have been getting 1x internet everywhere I go ever since I reached 3GB in the first week.
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htc(hot-taco-cheese) said:
I'm getting throttled and it sucks. I have been getting 1x internet everywhere I go ever since I reached 3GB in the first week.
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Well that's a no-brainer. WTF did you do? Torrent pr0n whilst tethered?

dc/dc said:
Well that's a no-brainer. WTF did you do? Torrent pr0n whilst tethered?
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Verizon is cracking the whip on "free" tethering. I read in an article that it can be tracked if your phone is on gingerbread. I'm not sure, maybe one of the devs could weigh in, but I read there was code written into GB to help them track it. If I can find the article, I'll link it.

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Verizon is cracking the whip on "free" tethering. I read in an article that it can be tracked if your phone is on gingerbread. I'm not sure, maybe one of the devs could weigh in, but I read there was code written into GB to help them track it. If I can find the article, I'll link it.
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Please do, cause on my Rom I use, everything Verizon is removed
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cell standby....time with no signal

Hi guys,
Quick question. When checking phone battery use, standby is always the highest and nh time without a signal is always around or over 50%. Does this mean my phone is defective? Can you guys compare your results? Thanks Pete

petes67bird said:
Hi guys,
Quick question. When checking phone battery use, standby is always the highest and nh time without a signal is always around or over 50%. Does this mean my phone is defective? Can you guys compare your results? Thanks Pete
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Are you in an area with bad cell reception? My time without a signal is always very low only a few minutes and thats just from the time it takes me to drive through the mountain pass to and from work.

At work I have very low signal but driving to work I have great signal. So today my phone has been on 1.5 hours before getting to work. Cell standby is 63% and time without signal is 51%.

Btw this is a replacement phone. My first one had gps issues. Ive had it 3 days but seems to have weaker overall signal.

Here are my screenshots. Should I get this phone replaced too. I swear my other phone had great battery life. I have barely touched this phone but it's only on its third battery cycle. Battery is at 82%. Opinions please.
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If its due to bad signal then that completely explains my battery. I have horrible signal at work
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If I am not wrong (I am assuming this is like the Nexus) you can turn off the LTE on your phone if you are not in the area that has it and will save some battery.

popfan said:
If I am not wrong (I am assuming this is like the Nexus) you can turn off the LTE on your phone if you are not in the area that has it and will save some battery.
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Can't turn LTE off currently.

That's a bummer that we cant...I think I'm suffering from the same issue.
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killerskincanoe said:
That's a bummer that we cant...I think I'm suffering from the same issue.
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I would be happy if I got that amount of battery life. I can barely get 11-12 with normal usuage.

But that's not "normal" Usage those. That's me constantly conserving by disabling data all the time or airplane mode in general. Those numbers only reach that high on days I ignore my phone
i also find it very uncool that 70 something % of my battery was cell standby? really? wtf is that...
i can't wait till we get ICS ... look at this pic of an xperia s after the ICS update
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killerskincanoe said:
But that's not "normal" Usage those. That's me constantly conserving by disabling data all the time or airplane mode in general. Those numbers only reach that high on days I ignore my phone
i also find it very uncool that 70 something % of my battery was cell standby? really? wtf is that...
i can't wait till we get ICS ... look at this pic of an xperia s after the ICS update
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Cell standby is caused by LTE searching, 4G Searching, GPS searching, and WIFI searching when it not connected.

So 70 % or more of my battery was used for searching for signal? That's pretty lame considering I keep everything off or disabled unless I'm using it. .... how does that make sense.
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Cell Standby Issue!

Why is my cell standby always so high up? Right now the phone has been on for 3 hours and the cell standby is at 41 percent.

Here as well.

What ROM are you using?
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I'm not sure but could it possibly be from the device constantly trying to get or maintain signal? Or perhaps it's just the most used thing on your phone? My battery has only dropped 15% in the last ten hours because I was working and barely used my phone, yet the cell standby was 51%.
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ChrisM0678 said:
What ROM are you using?
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I am using the stock rom.

owlchemist said:
I'm not sure but could it possibly be from the device constantly trying to get or maintain signal? Or perhaps it's just the most used thing on your phone? My battery has only dropped 15% in the last ten hours because I was working and barely used my phone, yet the cell standby was 51%.
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Yeah that's what it means. But why is it so high. My old HTC Aria only used about 15-20 percent battery for cell standby.

boom10ful said:
Why is my cell standby always so high up? Right now the phone has been on for 3 hours and the cell standby is at 41 percent.
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Now i'm even having trouble staying connected to my 5ghz network. I'm literally standing right next to my router and the phone just drops the connection like every hour.

As you use other stuff those percentages go up.
IF you have had your phone on for 3 hours and done nothing with it then cell standby will be high as the stuff below it was used a lot less.
I ve had mine on the battery for 20 hours and cell stand by is 34%
If you were to say play a game for a long time then your game and screen would go up in time.

Cell standby should not be that high no matter if you're using your phone or not. This sounds like the bug the the og sgs1 epic had that always caused the phone to have a high time without signal that drained battery. It was eventually fixed with the gingerbread update. Can one of you click on cell standby so we can see if the time without signal bug is back? I would like to know b4 I upgrade.
Edit: my cell standby never goes above 7% on my SGSII. And once the og epic got the fix the cell standby would remain below the 10%. Cell standby should be at the bottom of list unless you have crappy reception and the phone is constantly searching for service.
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RayTrue04 said:
Cell standby should not be that high no matter if you're using your phone or not. This sounds like the bug the the og sgs1 epic had that always caused the phone to have a high time without signal that drained battery. It was eventually fixed with the gingerbread update. Can one of you click on cell standby so we can see if the time without signal bug is back? I would like to know b4 I upgrade.
Edit: my cell standby never goes above 7% on my SGSII. And once the og epic got the fix the cell standby would remain below the 10%. Cell standby should be at the bottom of list unless you have crappy reception and the phone is constantly searching for service.
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here it is.

boom10ful said:
here it is.
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I need you to actually click on cell standby from that screen. If your time without signal is high then it's the same bug from og epic days.
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Here's what a normal cell standby looks like.
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Here's some info on it. They even tell you how to work around it. I honestly forgot about airplane mode. Brings back memories when I did it after every power up lol
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=13744
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Cell Standby is a bug, easily fixed. Use the Flashable zip from http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1732722
Some ROMS may not have this fix included, but most does. If you see that you have really high Cell Standby try this out. Worked for me, I was on FreeGS3 and the version I was running didn't have it, now the lastest release has it included.

Now new problem. the phone turns on for 2 seconds and then turns off again. this is random though. Usually happens every 2 hours or so.

RayTrue04 said:
I need you to actually click on cell standby from that screen. If your time without signal is high then it's the same bug from og epic days.
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Here you go.

RayTrue04 said:
I need you to actually click on cell standby from that screen. If your time without signal is high then it's the same bug from og epic days.
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Here you go.

boom10ful said:
Here you go.
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Lol it doesn't even show it! Maybe Samsung new about it so they just hid the time without signal from displaying on the cell standby
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boom10ful said:
here it is.
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im using wicked sensations v.1.... at the beginnig of his rom post post about mid way down the is a flashable cell stand-by fix... just fyi....goodluck

boom10ful said:
Why is my cell standby always so high up? Right now the phone has been on for 3 hours and the cell standby is at 41 percent.
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This is probably due to a well known bug on the Galaxy S III series, originally reported in the international version. The actual power consumption of Cell Standby is being overstated in the stats by a factor of about 10. This is a reporting issue, not an issue with actual power consumption. See this XDA thread.
It needs a fix from Samsung.

Battery's not as good as others

As I write this, I am currently 32% with 2 hours of display time. That's horrible compared to other people's battery.
I installed the ktoonez kernel and copied his exact settings but that didn't make a huge difference :/.
I have no idea what it is; I've disabled GPS, i have auto-brightness on, and i have sync turned off. I just don't get what's killing my battery...
If anyone who has the ktoonez kernel installed, may you please share your settings! It would help me a lot!
Or anyone who's reached 4 hour on screen time, please share your settings !
And I use the phone in a moderate fashion, just text, send photos and use the xda app!
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kevinrubio1 said:
I just don't get what's killing my battery...
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Your phone is a phone. Which means that unless you're in airplane mode (which I'll assume you're not since you didn't mention it), it is always sending and receiving information over the air. The quality of your signal will determine how much battery you use. Comparing your results to others that have the same phone is meaningless unless you're both either (a) in airplane mode or (b) at the same location using the same cell towers.
Maybe you have a weak signal wherever you are running these tests, and your battery is working overtime because of that? That's just one guess.

The111 said:
(b) at the same location using the same cell towers.
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We're brothers so we use the same signal and everything. I think it's an app or something?
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kevinrubio1 said:
We're brothers so we use the same signal and everything. I think it's an app or something?
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Well if you want to be really scientific about it (though this will be a huge PITA), flash the same exact software image to both phones, then repeat your test using both phones simultaneously. After this, if the phones do not perform identically, then recharge the batteries, swap them, and repeat the test.
This would identify whether the problem is related to the battery or the hardware. If it's not either of those, then yes it probably is software. Good luck!