My radio and signal is perfect.. except for this one building I experience an excessive amount of time in. Cell service is bad in that one building.. but so is every other phone so its not the nexus.
I've been wondering however... in order to save battery, do you think the GNex spreads out the 'retry' for signal the more it can't find it? This makes total sense to me, here's why.
If I spend say, 30 minutes or less inside this one building, and return outside, the signal picks back up pretty quickly...
If I spend a longer period of time, it takes a lot longer to find the signal again.
If I spend the entire day (12 hours) in the building, I'm not sure how long it takes to find signal again (I haven't waited long enough), I just toggle airplane mode.
My whole point is.. searching for a signal in a dead area on all my other phones dramatically reduced battery life, but with the GNex, I notice the battery isn't affected, hence why I think the phone tries for a period, then stretches the intervals of trying each time it finds nothing.
Make sense?
As I said, I don't have any signal issues when I am outside this one building.. I don't have any dropped calls/data or the like... but this may explain some peoples issues.
Sorry if this has been brought up before.. I guess I didn't enter the proper key words in the search.
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Overall, my area has a pretty good signal, but I live in a slight black spot, and my modern house with its foil lined walls does nothing to improve the situation. None of my phones have ever got a decent signal in the hous.
But I have observed a troublesome trend with the new Desire. If I leave the phone lying around on a shelf, the phone shows 2-3 bars of signal. If I make a call, the phone usually holds the call OK.
But if I pik the phone up to mess about with and dont immediately make a call, while I am holding the phone the signal will drop to zero, no service; and it doesn't come back, not until I put the phone back on the shelf.
Could it be that HTC are being too agressive with power management? Or could this be the same fault as has been reported in the Google Nexus?
It is entirely repeatable, to the point that I can demonstrate it to people.
What do other people in weak areas find?
Hi,
Is it exactly the same like the below demonstration of Nexus One signal drop?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEIA_lMwqJA
So far as that goes, yes, exactly the same.
What he doesn't do is test for less drop if a call is active. The phone appears to try harder to maintain the signal if a call is in progress.
AMAZING. Isn't it. So much talk about so many subjects, but no-one interested in how it actually performs as a PHONE!
This might be related to location of the GSM anthena on Desire and Nexus. Try to move your hand bit more up so you don't touch the bottom back part and check if there is any difference.
I would rather guess the described behaviour of a phone is perfectly normal with all phones under bad conditions. Happened to me with all my phones so far.
OK, Sprint was nice enough to send me one of these. I got it hooked up last week and can't seem to figure out how to stay connected to the damn thing. It's installed at my office because I'm sorta in a basement and the Sprint signal is really poor, usually about -110 dB. When the phone finally "sees" the Airave, the signal rockets up to around -60 dB, and it stays there. If I then go out, however, and return a few minutes later, I have to wait all over again for it to start working. It sometimes takes one or two hours before it finds the signal. The device is about six feet from my desk, so I know it's not a range issue.
TLDR: How do I get and stay connected to the Airave?
I live in an area with relatively little signal, and I know that's not very smart but yeah. Moving around, and stuck with a contract. I use my phone fairly moderately, with intermittent wifi use. When I go to work, and I'm in an area that has better reception I get around 14 hours out of a full battery and that's great! My issue is, when I'm at home I might get 5 hours out of a battery. It's not a huge issue, but it's still annoying to get up in the morning then have to plug it back up in the morning.
My question is, is their anything I can try that would help? I'm currently running Evo Deck 1.3D, and I've tried multiple kernels to no avail. The only things I have set to sync is my gmail, and I may get 20 emails a day, as well as Google+'s push notifications. Any and all help is greatly appreciated.
I've seen posts that discuss the data issue, but not with detailed meter readings. I've been here with the Epic4g and my Verizon Samsung Droid Charge side by side, both using 3G. Generally, the Charge reads around -98 dBm and the E4G reads around -101 dBm, but they both fluctuate. At almost the same signal strength (and sometimes the exact same) the Charge's data is perfectly usable, fast even, yet the E4G is completely unusable. It will make clear phone calls without dropouts, but data is a no-go. I realize they are different networks, but isn't dBm dBm? I've taken the E4G around to a few areas and i've noticed that data starts to become usable around -91 dBm. I also see it sometimes fluctuate back and forth rapidly from -106 dBm (no bars) to -64 dBm (full bars) sitting totally stationary.
On occasion when i'm in the house (normally around -101 dBm) i'll notice the E4G lose service altogether, and every time it comes back it's at -64 dBm (full bars) for around 5 seconds before reverting back to -101 dBm. So unless the signal meter is giving false readings, this phone is actually capable of great reception???
The reason for the tedious post is that i'm trying to decide if it's worth exchanging for another one. I want to believe that either I got an exceptionally bad one and that the exchange will be worth it, or that the data/reception issue really is software related and will be fixed, therefore making it worth forfeiting my 14 day return period. I bought it through Letstalk.com, so unless I let them hold $600 as ransom money, they won't cross ship an exchange (understandably). This means possibly 2 weeks without a phone which would be really difficult, but worth if it I scored one that functioned even a bit better. I was going to leave Verizon specifically for this device and I really want it to work out.
TIA
out of the blue, I've started having two very annoying issues with my phone.
First one is pretty important because it could cost me missing some important calls. Basically, at some points during the, usually during the afternoon/early evening, if someone calls me my phone doesn't ring. If they leave me a voicemail I get a notification several minutes later but it doesn't show that I had a missed call or anything like that. And when I ask the person who called me what happened, they say they dialed my number, it rang once or twice and then went directly to voicemail. That's what I'd expect to happen if the phone was off but it wasn't off.
Anyone know what might be causing this?
The second problem is that right around the same time frame as this seems to happen, my battery is draining ridiculously fast. It dropped from 47% to 34% in about two hours with absolutely no use during that time.
I opened up better battery stats to show kernel wakelocks since unplugged and it shows the powermanagementservice and something called bam_dmux_wakelock at the top of the list with 30m and 27 minutes.
It's completely stock, I haven't done anything to it. I had previously tried a couple of power management apps like juice defender and another one but I didn't like them and uninstalled them all. So I don't know what could be causing phonecalls to not be coming through to my phone. I have a fairly strong signal too. Any idea what's happening with my phone?
edit: btw, my battery life in general has been very crappy again. I thought the problem had resolved itself but today in just 14 hours I'm down to 30% with only 2 hours of screen time and 15 minutes of voice calls.