Wondering if there are any radio updates for the regular 3G mobile network and wifi radios?????
This phone has the absolute worst reception of any phone I have ever owned.
I am on Long Island in NY, so 4G and 4G LTE is non existant.....Sprint has no towers or plans to put them up according to CS.
Side by side, my EVO 4g has a pinned wifi signal and pinned 3G while in my room where I have my router and I had to get an Airrave from Sprint for regular calls....Yes it's that bad. At the same time on my new Galaxy Nexus in the same place I have 1 bar cell phone, no 3G and 1 bar on Wifi
So I am assuming the radios suck.
I constantly drop calls on the Gnex which never happened on the HTC EVO.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Steve
Anybody home????LOL
Is it that bad of a question????LOL
I simply can't find an answer.
Is there another forum that will answer this?
Thanks
Steve
Dude check out the development forum. Tons of new flashable radios in there. I just got done flashing fg01 myself
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Both me and my wife have EVO 4G, since sprint towers are going live in NY I started using it.
What we noticed, on my wifes phone it never finds any 4g signals while I have it all over the city. We actually have sprint tower on top of our building that gives me maximum strength signal while at home.
When we got phones I recall she was actually able to find 4g singnal here and there but it was way to sporadic to keep it on.
Both phones are rooted and running newest Wimax.
I found on forums possible issue with with bad MAC but I confirmed that is not the case.
Is there anything I can test/try at all or should I seek replacement from sprint?
I guess RUU and sprint store here I go
How would I know if I broke my 4G if its not in my area? I took a long road trip last month with 4G turned on and I don't think I ever saw it on. I was on the interstate the areas that should have had it. I'm planning on going to atlanta for thanksgiving and would like to fix it before then as my aunt is an iphone user. I think I can figure out how to fix it but I'd rather make sure its broken first.
Interstate? If you had given us more details on like a state location name, like CA or NV or NY, I can tell you that in 2011, Sprint will have 4g signal towers working in the western states of USA, and the eastern states like NY, Viriginia, and some others in the eastern part of USA have their signal on 4g towers already and have reported good 4g signals with their htc phones.
Acutally, yamaford, buddy...we got a long way to wait for 4g anyhow, look at this sprint coverage map on 3g, then look into the tabs on the right section of the map page, click on 4g connection with sprint devices, and u can see like Topeka has a big area around its capital for 4g service...and some others, but that's all I can think of about 4g atm, it will slowly continue to put up 4g signal towers until and after 2011.
http://coverage.sprint.com/IMPACT.jsp?ECID=vanity:coverage
The people with the 4g services have HTC Evo 4g, so your not gonna break your 4g at all, just make sure u keep it switched on or off to test around new areas. GL
I think my Question was taken the wrong way. I know the areas I drove through have 4G ( I85 Charlotte and Greensboro N.C.) but does it reach the HWY or what. I really don't understand where its transmitted from. same towers as 3G? The reason I ask about breaking it is that I have been a flashoholic from day one. I've had them all. Im on VirusROM now and I did find out that my keys are still there. Haven't checked the M.A.C. address yet.
4G Coverage Towers
Here is a link to check where the 4G towers actually are and what areas they specifically cover. Sprint does not own their own 4G towers. They teamed up with Clearwire to roll 4G out.
I've had the E4GT for less than 24hrs, and biggest issue is the less than splendid cell reception. Sitting in my living room i used to get 2-3 bars- this thing constantly throws into roaming. I updated my PRL, Profile, and Firmware. Didn't know what the latest PRL was that was out.
I know this thing has only been out a few days, so i understand some bugs. Is anyone else having signal issues where they didn't before?
I'm really trying rock this for a couple days stock before i root the hell out of it, lol.
Thanks for any input. Link me to resources if you like, i have no issues reading up on my own if this is a common issue.
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I've had the E4GT for less than 24hrs, and biggest issue is the less than splendid cell reception. Sitting in my living room i used to get 2-3 bars- this thing constantly throws into roaming. I updated my PRL, Profile, and Firmware. .
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Ditto! I even have an Air Rave and reception is poor.
I am running into the same situation. It keeps on switching between roaming and normal for no reason. I usually get pretty good reception in my room. It will sit there at about 2-3 bars reception, few minutes later its roaming. The phone hasn't been moved at all.
This happened to me 20 minutes after I got it on Friday but after a reboot it was fine. No problem since then. I assumed it was a network issue.
Same issue here, even with Airave (evo next to SG2 has better signal)
Huh, I'm getting better reception than my Evo 4G. The Epic Touch now works in my condo elevator at basement garage level where the Evo would consistently drop a call.
has anyone did a signal strength comparison instead of bars. they may have different values per bar on different phones.
Returns are warranted?
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I wonder if there is a difference in radios or something. My experience tells me that this radio is finicky as heck, and I don't know why.
Is there a way to find out if Samsung used different parts or suppliers to make the Epic Touch?
I remember HTC doing this with their phones, and some would be fine, and some would not (different issue each phone, lol)
Mine was doing the same i switched the phone to only go on sprints network and has been fine. I rarely need true roaming but it would go into roaming even when sprint service was available.
I think Sprint may be doing network upgrades/maintenance. The same phenomenon occurs on my Epic 4G Touch and multiple Nexus S 4G's. I'll see signal jump from -106 dBm to -76 dBm and in some places go into roaming. Nothing to worry about as long as it works. They may be upgrading equipment to support EVDO rev B hopefully.
I get much better 4G reception on the E4GT than the NS4G, FWIW.
My signal isn't as good as my photon was better then my evo 3d. I usually don't roam much. Trust me when I say this, reception could be worse lol ill deal with it!!
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I hope the poor signal has to do with upgrading to EvDo RevB on Oct7
Thank God I am not alone. My cell reception too is finicky. In places my old evo (which my girl use now)have weak signal my epic touch would roam in and out. Sometimes it won't leave roaming even after I get to a known good reception area. Only a reboot would kick it back to sprint network. I read somewhere that calling sprint and having them reset my phone on their end might help. I am going to try this out as soon as I get home.
Some of the people who own a the S3 on Verizon are reporting issues with reception between 3G and LTE especially the handoff between CDMA and lte. Is anyone who has this phone on AT&T experiencing similar issues?
I'm not having any issues using the LTE apn (default).
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Some of the people who own a the S3 on Verizon are reporting issues with reception between 3G and LTE especially the handoff between CDMA and lte. Is anyone who has this phone on AT&T experiencing similar issues?
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Perfect att reception here
AOKP jellybean by TGFY
i notice a definate death grip (i can verify this by checking the dBm under status in settings) and i also tend to see my data switch between h, H+, and 3g alot.
not in an LTE area
Sprint Galaxy S3 network connection issues
Good day everyone. I just recently purchased a New Galaxy S3 from a local Spint store. I have been a loyal Sprint customer for 15 years. I have owned many different phones (Star-Tac, Sony, Touch-pro 1-2, Evo, EVO 4G) Over the past 2 weeks since buying the S3, I've noticed a SERIOUS drop in network connectivity, both Data & Cell for absolutely no reason. Now, stop me if I'm wrong, but on my Evo 4G, I could connect to the internet EVEN if I didn't have a 3g signal... As long as I had Cell bars, I could access the web no problem. So the S3 is giving me some headaches and I've seen on other forums that others are too. These people are on diffferent carriers too.
So here's my issue. When I'm in a GOOD STRONG Sprint network, I've been attempting to access the web (Google Store or You-Tube) and have seen the 3g or 4G icon on the bar show data up/downloading then WINK, they dissappear and I get a "No connection RETRY" window. I've made many changes, selected CDMA instead of CDMA/LTE, vice-cersa. I've updated PRL, Profile, Firmware and even have the new Jelly Bean 4.1.1
I've contacted Samsung and "Chatted" with a technician, but this person had NO clue of this issue... I gave them the links to this and other Android forums...
So do I take it back? Revert back to my Evo? I have to say, the speed and versatility on the S3 when it's good, is GREAT, but I'm not one to have some half good, especially one so expensive...
Any imput is appreciated... :fingers-crossed:
GS3 on ATT in Austin Tx
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Some of the people who own a the S3 on Verizon are reporting issues with reception between 3G and LTE especially the handoff between CDMA and lte. Is anyone who has this phone on AT&T experiencing similar issues?
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I get stellar reception and speeds in major cities and highways throughout the state. Honestly I've never seen my phone drop to 3G but I'm not in rural areas often. I have see speedtests as high as 65mb down in Austin.
Nope nope nope.. All well n good
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No Problems Here
I have an ATT S3 and I haven't had any noticeable problems.
Great reception with my AT&T SGS3
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Out in a 4G area here in Minneapolis, MN. It might have been a fluke with CM10, but my signal would cut in and out every 30 minutes or so. Flashed AOKP and it works fine, but it was weird.
we bought two galaxy S3 and a galaxy note 2 on black Friday and we are very impressed by the quality of the Samsung phones. However, galaxy s3 phones are having 3G network issues. Our apartment is not getting very good reception with sprint but 3G speed tests are consistent with less than 100ms ping and 0.4-1mbps download speeds and 4g wimax speeds are decent. We have an airave device since we had issues with voice reception and we are very impressed by the device. However, galaxy s3 phones are having issues with 3G reception regardless if it is under airave reception or just outside tower reception. It was getting good speed and all of sudden 3G network turns itself off and it comes back on. I thought it was due to weak 3G signal into our apartment but it is doing the same with airave 3G and I thought it was mainly due to the programming of the phone since galaxy s3 has better reception quality than my galaxy s epic 4g. so I went to setting > network > more options > mobile network > and turned on CDMA only and those issues are gone with galaxy s3s. I think the phones are trying to connect to LTE and if the area does not have the coverage yet, it resets the 3G radio. During the resetting, the 3G coverage disappears and disrupts the data. has this been ongoing problem for the galaxy s3 on sprint? my galaxy s1 epic 4G never has this issue and we are wondering CDMA only option is temporary fix for the issue. if anyone had similar problem and was able to fix it, let me know. thank you.
sangbyung said:
we bought two galaxy S3 and a galaxy note 2 on black Friday and we are very impressed by the quality of the Samsung phones. However, galaxy s3 phones are having 3G network issues. Our apartment is not getting very good reception with sprint but 3G speed tests are consistent with less than 100ms ping and 0.4-1mbps download speeds and 4g wimax speeds are decent. We have an airave device since we had issues with voice reception and we are very impressed by the device. However, galaxy s3 phones are having issues with 3G reception regardless if it is under airave reception or just outside tower reception. It was getting good speed and all of sudden 3G network turns itself off and it comes back on. I thought it was due to weak 3G signal into our apartment but it is doing the same with airave 3G and I thought it was mainly due to the programming of the phone since galaxy s3 has better reception quality than my galaxy s epic 4g. so I went to setting > network > more options > mobile network > and turned on CDMA only and those issues are gone with galaxy s3s. I think the phones are trying to connect to LTE and if the area does not have the coverage yet, it resets the 3G radio. During the resetting, the 3G coverage disappears and disrupts the data. has this been ongoing problem for the galaxy s3 on sprint? my galaxy s1 epic 4G never has this issue and we are wondering CDMA only option is temporary fix for the issue. if anyone had similar problem and was able to fix it, let me know. thank you.
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You're probably right.
The only real way to avoid it is to disable LTE during the time when you're at home.
Alternatively, see if it will simply hold an LTE signal instead of using the airave, though I doubt it will.
The reason for the difference is that the Epic 4G is using Wimax, while the Galaxy S3 and Note II are using LTE.
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we bought two galaxy S3 and a galaxy note 2 on black Friday and we are very impressed by the quality of the Samsung phones. However, galaxy s3 phones are having 3G network issues. Our apartment is not getting very good reception with sprint but 3G speed tests are consistent with less than 100ms ping and 0.4-1mbps download speeds and 4g wimax speeds are decent. We have an airave device since we had issues with voice reception and we are very impressed by the device. However, galaxy s3 phones are having issues with 3G reception regardless if it is under airave reception or just outside tower reception. It was getting good speed and all of sudden 3G network turns itself off and it comes back on. I thought it was due to weak 3G signal into our apartment but it is doing the same with airave 3G and I thought it was mainly due to the programming of the phone since galaxy s3 has better reception quality than my galaxy s epic 4g. so I went to setting > network > more options > mobile network > and turned on CDMA only and those issues are gone with galaxy s3s. I think the phones are trying to connect to LTE and if the area does not have the coverage yet, it resets the 3G radio. During the resetting, the 3G coverage disappears and disrupts the data. has this been ongoing problem for the galaxy s3 on sprint? my galaxy s1 epic 4G never has this issue and we are wondering CDMA only option is temporary fix for the issue. if anyone had similar problem and was able to fix it, let me know. thank you.
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Yeah and another thing that i have personally noticed is that they GS3 with some people, have problems connecting to the ariwave. this was one reason why i sold my first gs3 back in July.
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sangbyung said:
we bought two galaxy S3 and a galaxy note 2 on black Friday and we are very impressed by the quality of the Samsung phones. However, galaxy s3 phones are having 3G network issues. Our apartment is not getting very good reception with sprint but 3G speed tests are consistent with less than 100ms ping and 0.4-1mbps download speeds and 4g wimax speeds are decent. We have an airave device since we had issues with voice reception and we are very impressed by the device. However, galaxy s3 phones are having issues with 3G reception regardless if it is under airave reception or just outside tower reception. It was getting good speed and all of sudden 3G network turns itself off and it comes back on. I thought it was due to weak 3G signal into our apartment but it is doing the same with airave 3G and I thought it was mainly due to the programming of the phone since galaxy s3 has better reception quality than my galaxy s epic 4g. so I went to setting > network > more options > mobile network > and turned on CDMA only and those issues are gone with galaxy s3s. I think the phones are trying to connect to LTE and if the area does not have the coverage yet, it resets the 3G radio. During the resetting, the 3G coverage disappears and disrupts the data. has this been ongoing problem for the galaxy s3 on sprint? my galaxy s1 epic 4G never has this issue and we are wondering CDMA only option is temporary fix for the issue. if anyone had similar problem and was able to fix it, let me know. thank you.
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TO ALL!!!! this is a call to action. I too, like many others are experiencing unacceptable data speeds while on 3G and in great reception while uing the Galaxy S III. the speeds I should be recieving are 1.5-3 MB/s but instead I am recieving around 128Kb/s in the city and within excellent service. We all have to pay a 'Premium Data Add-On' charges just to own these phones and this is unacceptable. Please write an Email to [email protected], vice president of customer experience at sprint and let him know what you are experiencing. Maybe if enough pissed off customers write, they will finally listen!
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TO ALL!!!! this is a call to action. I too, like many others are experiencing unacceptable data speeds while on 3G and in great reception while uing the Galaxy S III. the speeds I should be recieving are 1.5-3 MB/s but instead I am recieving around 128Kb/s in the city and within excellent service. We all have to pay a 'Premium Data Add-On' charges just to own these phones and this is unacceptable. Please write an Email to [email protected], vice president of customer experience at sprint and let him know what you are experiencing. Maybe if enough pissed off customers write, they will finally listen!
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You are a moron.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=36380064#post36380064
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=36380166#post36380166
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=36380185#post36380185
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=36380190#post36380190
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=36380266#post36380266
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=36380387#post36380387
They're not going to do anything. Your signature means you're a hypocrite. Calling people douchwads. Can't even spell.
Thanks for contributing! Its cheese bags like you that really make forums informational, And good job reporting me! I hope that made your life better. You know what, guy with no life, I have received at least 1 thanks, in at least one of the many forums I have found outlining the same issue ( that you linked to and BTW you missed a few! :-0) so its worth it to hear a sprint employee like you to shed some tears! Thanks for wasting everyone who reads your and my post's time!
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sangbyung said:
we bought two galaxy S3 and a galaxy note 2 on black Friday and we are very impressed by the quality of the Samsung phones. However, galaxy s3 phones are having 3G network issues. Our apartment is not getting very good reception with sprint but 3G speed tests are consistent with less than 100ms ping and 0.4-1mbps download speeds and 4g wimax speeds are decent. We have an airave device since we had issues with voice reception and we are very impressed by the device. However, galaxy s3 phones are having issues with 3G reception regardless if it is under airave reception or just outside tower reception. It was getting good speed and all of sudden 3G network turns itself off and it comes back on. I thought it was due to weak 3G signal into our apartment but it is doing the same with airave 3G and I thought it was mainly due to the programming of the phone since galaxy s3 has better reception quality than my galaxy s epic 4g. so I went to setting > network > more options > mobile network > and turned on CDMA only and those issues are gone with galaxy s3s. I think the phones are trying to connect to LTE and if the area does not have the coverage yet, it resets the 3G radio. During the resetting, the 3G coverage disappears and disrupts the data. has this been ongoing problem for the galaxy s3 on sprint? my galaxy s1 epic 4G never has this issue and we are wondering CDMA only option is temporary fix for the issue. if anyone had similar problem and was able to fix it, let me know. thank you.
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Had problem to for the first couple days after getting my s3 but all the bugs worked out. As far as cdma/lte and cdma option. I switched to just cdma being lte not up and running. This will save battery being phone wont be looking for lte network
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You can also contact sprint. They have updates for the airave and if that dont work they will send the new design one. Reason is s3 is new surf and talk and airave is standard cdma. Call takes about an hour for them to go through all thier steps. Before you call try *99 it will force connection to airave first and see if you still lose it.
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