Los and other issues(first two hours) - Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II

Fing boot loop. As we speak...it's fing doing it. I'll post you tube soon.
Also had los issues. After being in for 3 mins(no time issue.) I get a loss, try prl or profile updating...and bam. Was so excited, watched taking, waited. I'm thoroughly bummed.
Thanks Sprint for the $400 brick
-Steve
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIN2A2MgvwA&feature=youtube_gdata_player
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No way anyone can help you with such an incident message so what's the point of posting it.
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It's under General, and giving a heads up.I've had EVERY Sprint galaxy device upon release.just giving a short review of what I found upon opening.I have had Samsung android devices since they started.first oob disappointment.
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tubasteve said:
Fing boot loop. As we speak...it's fing doing it. I'll post you tube soon.
Also had los issues. After being in for 3 mins(no time issue.) I get a loss, try prl or profile updating...and bam. Was so excited, watched taking, waited. I'm thoroughly bummed.
Thanks Sprint for the $400 brick
-Steve
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It must be your device. I didn't have a single issue as reboot, boot loop etc. Now I've had a few of FCs but with apps that FCed on my other phones too.
LOS was much worse on GSIII for me, I had to turn off and on data to get it back or get 3G instead of 1xRTT quite often. Very little of such LOS issues on my new Note II.
I've had some but updating PRL usually resolved it.
Also it only happened while I was driving (truck driver - all over the country) so I can understand there could be some handoff issues with sprint towers. It never happened yet while I was stationary.
Btw...You paid $400????

I had terrible LOS issues on my GS2, the device was terrible. I haven't seen a single LOS with my Note 2. Every area that I had LOS or data issues with the GS2 is solid on the Note 2. Not a single boot loop, reboot, etc issue at all. Maybe a couple of 3rd party app FCs, but nothing from the stock apps.
Sorry you got a lemon, return it and have it replaced. You are still in the 14 day window.

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I had terrible LOS issues on my GS2, the device was terrible. I haven't seen a single LOS with my Note 2. Every area that I had LOS or data issues with the GS2 is solid on the Note 2. Not a single boot loop, reboot, etc issue at all. Maybe a couple of 3rd party app FCs, but nothing from the stock apps.
Sorry you got a lemon, return it and have it replaced. You are still in the 14 day window.
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I kept GSII for exactly 8 hours! The LOS and signal strength were unacceptable. Just plain ridiculous. I couldn't make a call from inside of my house. I could only imagine how it would "perform" if I took it on the road.

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3g speeds super low.

I've updated my PRL and profile several times. My old phone was slow too. Could something be wrong with my account?
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It could be your area. Try testing in different locations. If it's still slow, then it may be your account.
Sometimes if you use a lot of data, there is some evidence to suggest sprint may throttle you.
The other thing could be your phone. If you have a lot of processes going, even ones that don't use data, it can still affect the phones ability to work properly.
I would try ruling those out and then call Sprint.
Evo running UD 2.5
Yeah my wifes phone gets about 500k compared to my 50 ish. 4g works good tho..
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Installed a non sense rom and it shows I'm not even connecting to 3g at all..
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There is a thread for this already, a lot of people are having this same problem, including me. It started around November, when before, I would constantly get at least 1500kbps down and up, as both my home and work are less than a block from a tower.
After one day for some reason, I can NEVER get anything above 100kpbs, and it usually doesnt work at all. I have done everything, and sprint, stupidly, thinks that its a hardware problem every time, and since November, they have given me 5 brand new evo's. ALL have the exact same problem. I'm no expert, but 5 brand new phones dont all have the same problem. I have called CS MANY MANY times, and they refuse to check their end, saying every time that "our network is fine".
Whats weird, every friend I have on sprint, their phones are fine, even 3 year old phones. Whats even weirder, my friend with an evo, and the evo's in the sprint store all are fine. But with this thread on here, and a long thread on AF, there seems to be an isolated issue with a lot of people.
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Whats weird, every friend I have on sprint, their phones are fine, even 3 year old phones. Whats even weirder, my friend with an evo, and the evo's in the sprint store all are fine. But with this thread on here, and a long thread on AF, there seems to be an isolated issue with a lot of people.
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Well you can count me in as an isolated issue. My 3G has been fine for like 2 years now, and all of the sudden, I'd say the past month or more, total crap. It's taking me about 5 minutes or more to download a 2mb app update on the market. 4G is still good. I really wish I knew what was going on. I do the same Profile and PRL updates like the OP daily.
Well its definitely not my 3g being "slow". I am just not connecting to it. Qik errors and says I am not connected to 3g. My data status says 1x RTT for my connection. I need to call sprint.

What does LOS look like?

I get terrible ****ing coverage at work, I mean I'm roaming half the time. Sometimes Ill have like 2-3 bars, ill look at my phone, and bam, 0 bars. Other times, Ill get notifications of Voicemail messages, but Ill never have received a call (which im guessing this means calls aint coming thru at times)
Is this the LOS issue? Or just really crappy signal? Is there a notification or something when the LOS issue comes up?
No...i think u jus have the weak signal issue...with los u have no bars....and theres a big white circle where your bars should...it sucks cuz some times u have to restart your phone to get it back...
I suppose it depends on where you are but for me that's what my LOS problem looked like, until I eventually had no signal at all (a white circle with a line through it) and no amount of reboots would bring it back. I bought 2 ET4G's and we have a small tower farm down the block where the big 4 and Clearwire all have a presence. I'd put both phones down on the table next to each other and my phone would roam over to Verizon and my wife's would show 5 bars on Sprint. I had to send my ET4G back and revert to my old HTC Hero and that has 5 bars at my house. I had high hopes for my Epic Touch 4G but it was not to be.
Its a circle with a line through it indicating no service
Samsung Galaxy S Dos indeed
yeah then I dont htink I got LOS, i still miss calls because of this **** reception though.
Gonna set up an airrave at work soon.. hope that helps **** out
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now thats what a ****ty ass LOS signal looks like...LOL
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A bit offtopic but what browser is that?
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Not caused by low battery. Did the MSL reset 4 days ago and haven't had LOS since.
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Dolphin Browser HD
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Dolphin Browser HD
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Yep.
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First LOS

Got my first LOS today. I've had the phone for about a month. Yesterday i rooted using the autoroot method so i didn't mess with the Kernel or anything so i'm not sure if it's coincidence or what. Just letting you guys know.
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Got my first LOS today. I've had the phone for about a month. Yesterday i rooted using the autoroot method so i didn't mess with the Kernel or anything so i'm not sure if it's coincidence or what. Just letting you guys know.
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I've had my phone for about a month and a half or so... I just got my first "official" LOS (the little "no" sign) on Thursday last week. I rooted with the Autoroot about 2 weeks ago so I don't think there is any connection.
I've had "ghost" LOS a few times, though, where the phone wouldn't send or receive text or make a call. I still showed "bars" however...
Now that I've had an LOS, I think I'll try a ROM or two while wating for ICS or CM7/9.
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Lmao hahah .....priceless ...hey i wanted to let.y'all know Im watching netflix on my epic.touch
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Lmao hahah .....priceless ...hey i wanted to let.y'all know Im watching netflix on my epic.touch
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For the record, I had a LOS two days ago, haven't had one since. Im also drinking a Monster Rehab, good stuff man.
had tons of LoS when i was rooted(for about a month) unrooted yesterday and have had full bars ever since then, may on drop 1 bar every now and then but besides that i've had no problems
Had my second one today. Trying send a message it went from 3g with full bars, to no 3g, to the bars going down slowly, to the no symbol. Had to reboot, and it seemed to happen after uploading 20 pics to Facebook.
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Had my first beer today. It was a Coors light two stage cold activation but it was only first stage cold. Didn't taste good. Thought I'd let you guys know.
MrDowntown12 said:
Had my first beer today. It was a Coors light two stage cold activation but it was only first stage cold. Didn't taste good. Thought I'd let you guys know.
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More of this please
great...another los thread
This phone has some great hardware but I've experienced LOS even before my phone was rooted. It happens about once per week for me, on average.
Just got my first I after I rooted. Sucks balls.
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I rooted using the non-ODIN method as soon as I got home from Sprint with my Epic Touch. Stock kernel, stock ROM, I just wanted to be able to run Adfree and a couple other root only apps.
I've only had one LOS, that was yesterday, about a week after getting my phone.
What I noticed about my LOS was that I was in my basement, I had NO bars then all the sudden I lost signal because it legitimately wasn't there. My HTC EVO 4G does this in the basement from time to time too and couldn't roam either.
Anyway, I went upstairs and left to run to the store but the phone never got signal back until I did a full reboot as where my EVO would/does.
No big deal. Nothing that has warranted me installing viperboys LoS mod yet or anything.
So far this phones been pretty trouble free.
This thread is fun, it's like a special ed Twitter, only much much slower.

T-Mobile - horrible reception? (Time without a signal)

I've got the T-Mobile SGS3, and am getting horrible reception.. time without a signal hovers around 30% at home on this phone, where as both my Nexus One and Sensation had no problems whatsoever with signal. Going for WCDMA preferred instead of GSM auto (default out of the box setting) didn't help.. fwiw, I'm getting 3-4 bars of signal on the statusbar.
is anyone else having this issue, or is my phone just a lemon?
Thanks!
bump.. no one else is seeing bad reception?
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I think a lot of people are having this problem in one way or another, including myself.
http://www.tmonews.com/2012/07/t-mobile-suffering-data-outage-says-early-reports/
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Yes im having trouble!! No internet On htc amaze! Good to know not only me. weird that texting works but not internet. Oh well guess time to stay on wifi for nowm let me know if anyone gets any updates or when its getting back up.
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Like my signal is so bad right now.
I'm having problems in Las Vegas area thank god I'm home now, I just switch carriers for better service and this happens 0_o for 3 years in different carries I never had problems
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I got 4g back by the toggle data like 10 times lol, saw it in another thread
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Ha either way my 4g is back. Good thing for wifi for a couple hours
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cashyftw said:
Like my signal is so bad right now.
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Im on sprint, and my signal is piss poor also. Take forever to logon to pandora and forget about watching any videos, impossible. I'm thinking the modern needs an update. What's the sense in having this bad ass phone if we can't even listen to internet radio in peace. I'm going back to my SSG2, and getting my HBO back for lunch
I'm still getting 25-30% time without a signal, just sitting at home.. why is the signal strength for the SGS3 so bad?! Is it a Samsung issue? I've only had HTC android phones before this one.

Quick reviews from people who've had the phone for a few months now

I'm most likely going to be getting this phone sometime in the near future and wanted to ask if anyone noticed any niggles or other nonsense that sometimes happens with Samsung Android phones (i.e. roaming notification not caring about no longer displaying the message, GPS issues, etc.)
Just quick reviews, mostly I'm looking for the little things that bug people.
Thanks
Bloatware on Stock ROM. That the Cons.of this phone. Custom ROM and you will sell your TV and your computer. Never posted using the computer after GS3.
Thanks Clark for FreeGS3.
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Bloatware on Stock ROM. That the Cons.of this phone. Custom ROM and you will sell your TV and your computer. Never posted using the computer after GS3.
Thanks Clark for FreeGS3.
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+1, had a number of smartphones in the past, this one clearly blows all of my expectations away. The only issue I've had is sporadically losing connectivity to my wifi and I'm not sure if it's something I've loaded or a bug from Samsung/Sprint. My kids have the Evo LTE and Iphone 4S and I wouldn't trade for the world.
The best phone yet IMO, yes the only con I have found is data connectivity every once and awhile. LG8 radio seems better than any other. Been running jellybomb rom, superfast. Fastest phone I've owned so far, and I've had um back to the HTC Hero.
message brought to u by my JellyBombed GalaxyS3
Best phone I've ever owned with regard to... everything. There's a reason it's the hottest-selling phone right now.
Chones!!! It's great except half bar on WiFi when I should clearly be full.
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Chones!!! It's great except half bar on WiFi when I should clearly be full.
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Try moving your router as far away from other electronics. As for the phone...I'm really loving it. With an extended battery( Hyperion 4200mah) in it, I'm getting almost two days off charger with 47% still left as I type this.
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Yeah...it'll add bulk to your baby but, I'm used to it now.
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Its the best choice, my only gripe is maybe that I wanted quad core to dual boot Ubuntu and do my best to ditch all use of laptop or desktop. ...but ..then again despite all the quads having nicer gpus even the a15 based s4krait kinda disappointed next generation I suppose
This is kinda a crappy year for the fact they are transitioning production processes I'm really hoping the next exynos generation skips a15 all together
But yeah long story short ...it beats everything we have in the US market
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best phone by far

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