I have just got my desire on T-Mobile, and am happy with the phone. But the signal strength both on my wifi and phone signal is very week. I was originally on T-Mobile for many years and never had a signal problem at home, so I tried my sim in an old Nokia and I am getting full bars, in my desire it fluctuates between 1-3 bars. I also have an N-router set up and get perfect coverage right across the house with all my wifi devices, but not the desire, even if I am only a few feet away from my router the best I can get is about 50% strength.
Is there a problem with the firmware, or do I have hardware issue, any comments welcome.
Ok so I got the Desire
My connection keeps switching from 3G to HSDPA every couple of seconds this is causing all sorts of issue for me.. Any body else have this issue? I might take the handset back for the 4th time
Happens to me as well mate, its due to having a low 3g/hsdpa signal... My one where i live constantly changes between 3g/hsdpa and G. But when i go into central london, it stays H its due to the signal quality in the area, not with your phone mate
JD
I second that, it switches all the time in my home and never downloads on 3G. I thought this was an issue with the phone, then at a party I couldn't get H but got 3G and it downloaded data fine.
I'm hoping that they increase the signal strength and coverage over the years, but i'm pretty satisfied thus far.
At least you see a 3G and a HSPDA connection... I have never seen past GPRS on mine. Fastest it's been is 25kbps dl and ul with 577ms ping so I can only ever use WiFi. So much for navigation.
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i have a fairly weak area too and left my phone on auto thinking this was best. however, having selected 3g only, i have noted a much improved data connection and none of this messing about going from one to another! maybe worth a try for your area.
The two main places i use the connection are at home and work and in both my connection speed varies according to where i am .If i sit on the right hand couch in my living room then i just about get 3g but if i move 10 ft across the room i get full HSPDA(the same situation occured with my iphone)and i have yet to find out the reason.
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hi
My understanding is that when there is minimal date transfer (basically just connected to network) it shows 3G but when any data transfer takes place e.g., opening webpage or market etc etc, the connection changes to HSDPA to download at faster rate
But i may be wrong
I have the same prob, and already opened topic about it, and i see few others opend some more..
Basicly having my old HTC HD aside with Desire, HD connects to 3g, and Desire is jumping around from 3G and a HSPDA and it doesnt wana connect to 3g, same happnes with a HTC Legend phone who 2 of my friends have.
HTC Desire is a very fine phone and I am really happy with it after upgrading from my beloved WinMo 6.5 based HTC Touch Diamond, which was also quite a revelation 2 years ago.
However I am a bit concerned about the WiFi reception sensitivity- when I have my Desire next to an iPhone tuned to the same AP, iPhone indicates much stronger signal than Desire. Also iPhone appears to be picking more WiFi networks in urban areas than Desire sitting right next to it. The signal strength measured by the Desire is way below that of iPhone or my laptop- although the latter two tend to agree.
This was enough to convince me to get a replacement Desire today but the WiFi sensitivity has not improved noticably. I wonder what is your experience?
For example I am now in a place where an Open WAP (no security) shows -30dBm on my laptop while Desire's WiFi Analyzer gives -55dBm, which is 25 dBm less or approximately 20x weaker signal as far as I can remember from my engineering past.
With weak AP signals the difference appears to be increasing- my laptop picks a network at -55dBm while Desire already looses this network as it comes and goes at -95dBm.
I would imagine that with such poor WiFi radio signal path the Desire will unncecessarily boost the transitting power thus contributing to faster battery drain?
I am honestly puzzled here.
Dont compare your Desire with your laptop. It will never be the same, nor win.
Laptop component will be far superior.
Use SpeedTest app and test the connection speed.
I tested my Desire at my house, on the spot are which it only has -80 db and I could manage 2Mbps connection. Still fast enough for web browsing, market browsing, etc.
I'm running Damage Control 3.2.3 since I got the Evo about a month ago so I don't have too much time running the stock ROM.
I've noticed the wifi signal sucks! I can be using the wifi sitting on the couch a few from the router and my signal dropouts out every so often. I'm also running the latest radio (2.05.00.06.10).
Anyone have wifi issues?
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Mine isn't THAT bad. But I have noticed the signal seems abnormally lower than other devices. And there are places where I can't even see a wifi signal that other devices can see and connect to.
Anyone have any insight as to why our Evo's arent good with Wifi Reception ?
problems with wifi, reset router.
I had problems with my wifi signal. thought that it was because of my flashing back and worth from rom to rom. Finally, decided to reset my router and voila! signal problems were gone.
this is totally non-specific to a router.
My laptop had full strength. My evo has one bar. Same thing at home, other people's homes, hot spots, etc. My friends iPhone picks up wifi signals i can't even see. It's pretty annoying. Probably just an inferior antenna inside the phone.
Today I noticed that the signal on my hox is worse than on my old desire. On places where my desire got constand hsdpa the hox switches constantly from hsdpa to 3g with less signal bars. Anyone else with this problem ?
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Same here, I now have to go outside my office to be able to make calls that dont drop. With my SG2 would get full bar in my office, but with HOX only get 2bars
Yup mine seems the same, stumbled upon this thread looking for a solution so hopefully someone who has some success resolving the issue will be able to help.
I'm having this issue too, hopefully when s off has been achieved we will be able to flash different radios it has fixed this issue on all of my previous phones.
My phone also seems to have a somewhat weaker 3G reception than my SGS-2, although they both act in the same way in regards to switching between 3G and H+ all the time. I think this can be corrected partly via software updates since the wifi reception is much stronger on the HOX than any unit I ever had before. It is the same "antenna" the receives both signals isnt it?
Mine seems to get faster 3G speeds than my Gnex and GS2 (unless my network has improved in the past 2 week)
But phone signal is far worse, especially since the 1.28 update... I'm not getting signal now in places where I used to always get signal
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My data speeds have dramatically decreased after the latest 1.28 update - quite dissapointing! I have no use for better signal if the data is worse lol
Have been lurking on here for a while now and noticed a few threads and comments about reception on the One X
I am in the same boat, was using a Desire S and now a One x and noticed there is a distinct difference in signal level between the two. Not just the signal bars (desire s has 4, One x has 5) but the dBm levels too.
I would say that 80% of those that have had the update and posted about signal have said that it has improved, regardless of carrier they use.
I went into the store where I bought mine from (ThreeUk Retail shop) and they were going to swap it out there and then for me but the handset on display (working demo) had a similar level to mine, so seemed pointless as Im guessing that all/most of the units are like this, it isnt an isolated case.
So, im not sure what to do now. I have just swapped my main number to Three (and its now my only number). Im without coverage far more than I used to be with Voda, or with Three using the Desire S.
Three shop says they have a 28 day policy for faulty handsets, I hope that the update is out before that so I can see for myself.
Brilliant handset though…. screen is lush, using the phone is a pleasure…. just brilliant.
Steve
I am noticing far worse signal on my handset than previous handsets , an awful lot of the time my handset switches between t-mobile and orange , whereas previous handsets were solid t-mobile all day , and also the data speeds are worse. I am not very impressed as the 1.28 update appears to have made this worse, and its an unlocked generic variant in the uk if thats of any help
cheers
james
My signal is loads better.
Before the update I couldn't sit on the sofa and make a call I would get 3bars then nothing.
Now I'm a fairly constant 4 bars sat on the sofa.
I'm on Tesco (so O2) I was going to take the handset back before the update.
Battery seems twice as good on a completely different note.
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I have had a similar experience as descb600f. Prior to 1.28 my signal would drop regularly. After 1.28 I am finding it is far better, regularly seeing 3 bars, where before it would continually switch between 0 and 2 bars.
WiFi reception is great, puts my Desire to shame!
So which is it, does 1.28 make signal alot better or not? And what about actual call quality, its one thing getting 3 bars but another if calls are choppy
I do have to agree with the signal/Wifi issues on this device.. I came from a Nexus S (GSM model) and I used to get good HSPA/UMTS signals on that device, I also have a Wifi network setup in my house, it covers most of the house and some of the backyard.. However when out in the backyard the One X seems to drop the connection to the Wifi network, however my old Nexus S still has atleast 2-3 bars of Wifi connectivity and constantly keeps the signal/connection.
Has anyone else had issues like this with Home Wifi networks not getting as great a signal as other devices?
If I hold the One X in one hand and the Nexus S in the other and move away from the Wifi Access Point, the One X drops signal strength a lot quicker and the Nexus S keeps connection/signal a lot further away..
Bit dissapointed with that, and hope it's some how able to be fixed with software/firmware upgrades in the future?
Also I noticed the One X seems to switch between H/3G (HSPA/UMTS etc) quite a lot more than the Nexus S does, same network, holding both in same spot..
Apart from these minor issues and the screen flickering issue I'm more than happy with the One X..
Tondern said:
I think this can be corrected partly via software updates since the wifi reception is much stronger on the HOX than any unit I ever had before. It is the same "antenna" the receives both signals isnt it?
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WiFi and 2G/3G are two different chipsets and different antennas.
I have also notices dropsin the last 3 days, including hours with no reception at all
Need to switch from 1.26 to 1.28 soon to try it...
I should say I live in an area with only 2G reception and we sit in a dip partially hidden from the transmitters.
We can only get O2/Voda (orange/TMob if I just want to live upstairs in a corner of the house) and since the update I now have no issues with reception just like I used to.
1.28 has resolved my issues.
On the wifi front
I live in an old stone cottage with timber frame extension (wifi b/g can't make it thru our internal walls in the old part of the house), I have the N wifi router upstairs in the extension and have no issues with losing WiFi either (didn't have issues before 1.28).
Hope this helps people, I realise some may say it has got worse but for me the difference is night and day making the phone completely fine.
I just found an old 3 SIM (from a dongle) and popped it into my desire s and placed both by the window running Network Signal App for 30 minutes.
Both were attached to the same tower and the HOX was getting between -89 and -91 dbm, the Desire a consistent -75dbm.
Just hope that Three shake their touche's and get the update approved ASAP…. im quite a technical guy, but the idea of rooting and doing the update myself gives me the shakes…..
Steve