What are my options? If there are any? - Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III

OK long story short
Was happy with epic touch then got s3 as its S3
But its reception is poor, at home loads if time I am losing the signals , just a freakin grey triangle. No 4g here
And 3g is poor very poor inside any place . It switches to 1x and just sits there for so long.
I feel it just cant keep latched on to the network strong enough.
I have tried all radios and like 5 ROMs even the latest MA4 combo too.
Not much of help.
Can anyone guide me what more I can do if at all there is anything left. Otherwise I am gonna have to move back to some other phone.
Thanks
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sprint offers microcells that connect to your home wireless network it boosts all your signals by using the internet. call them and ask them about it. it's like a little box you plug into a router and boosts your phone's reception.

The guy above me is talking about an Airave. Sprint sends them out for free if you have a poor signal in your house.
The grey triangle you are seeing means you are roaming. A while ago I was stuck roaming and fixed my problem by using the code below.
Also try dialing, ##72786#. Once you dial it it will reactivate your phone, reboot, update PRL, update profile, and reboot. It fixes a lot of network problems.
One more thing, my mom has a S II and when we are in the same building her signal jumps up and down from full bars to little bars, but my S III stays in the middle constantly.

Thanks for the help .
airvave isn't an option as I tend to lose signals at various confined spaces.
I.just need something which I can do or tweak with my phone like.some settings or even some hardware change like adding another antenna inside .
Any good and strong radio ?
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would be grateful for anymore suggestions
regards

lord dredd said:
OK long story short
Was happy with epic touch then got s3 as its S3
But its reception is poor, at home loads if time I am losing the signals , just a freakin grey triangle. No 4g here
And 3g is poor very poor inside any place . It switches to 1x and just sits there for so long.
I feel it just cant keep latched on to the network strong enough.
I have tried all radios and like 5 ROMs even the latest MA4 combo too.
Not much of help.
Can anyone guide me what more I can do if at all there is anything left. Otherwise I am gonna have to move back to some other phone.
Thanks
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If its really bad in your home, call up sprint / go to your local office and complain, and they'll probably give you an airave, which is basically just a 3G router they give you for in home.

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[Q] How's your signal strength? [LTE]

Hey all,
I'm curious to how your reception is on the VZ GNex. I still have my Rezound here and it seems like I'm getting about -20db worse on the GNex compared to the Rezound. I'm curious - has anyone else experienced this?
Thanks,
Super
yeah, and it is killing me. In the same spot in my room I had my rezound, I had MUCH MUCH better signal strengh. I could keep 4G all day, which is why I switched from sprint to verizon. Thunderbolt, Droid Bionic, Rezound, all worked fine. The GN looses 4G consistantly. This might be a deal breaker for me. I am going to try a custom rom in a min when it finishes downloading, but I doubt that will help. Also am on 4.0.2.
on the thunderbolt there was a setting that allowed us to change when it "lost" 4G signal. I.E. it would allow the phone to pick up a weak signal. Does anyone know if there is a setting like this? I know the signal isn't weak in my house from the previous phones, so it is either a setting like this, or the GN has a really crappy radio...
The 3g and 4g on my Nexus is very bad and not even usable. It is either dropped or barely working. Without wi-fi my phone would have been useless today.
If this isn't correct quickly I will have no choice but to go back to my Thunderbolt which was great!
Service at my apartment just sucks but it's getting the same reception as my OG Droid
I had a rezound and was certainly getting a better signal, 2 things I noticed on the rezound was the battery door actually had antenna relays in it, and also there was 3 settings on the rezound for network performance (performance, normal, and battery saver)
I get horrible signal strength in spots, like on my way home from work there are several short distances where it just drops the signal all together.
At home, my phone seems to just drop connection completely and it's having a hard time picking it up again. Noticed this morning it had been without network access all night. Rebooted it and everything was OK (strong signal) in the exact same physical location.
does any body know how to update roaming with this phone I tried *228 but that didn't work
I am having similar issues in regards to network dropping out. I can understand why 4g would -being limited coverage and all- but 3g should seamlessly pick up where it drops off, plus my voice signal is much lower -100dBmw vs -85/-90dBm which I got with my OG Droid.
jnyce87 said:
does any body know how to update roaming with this phone I tried *228 but that didn't work
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You can't update roaming on LTE devices, as the sim card automatically does it. What you can do is a "sim reset" type thing.
Power off, and leave your sim card out for like 5 minutes. Put it back in and turn on the phone. According to multiple sources, this will cause the sim to have to re-register on the network, thus refreshing/updating your privs.
Rezound is way better reception wise. Matter of fact, the Rezound is better at a lot of key things! Ima give this a chance but I gotta say I miss my Rezzy!!
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WOW.... my Nexus data was very bad and almost unusable, but now it is fixed!
I didn't want to, but I did a factory data reset and it resolved the data issues. Everything is solid connections now and holding steady. Before the signal was bouncing all over the place.
Give the factory data reset a try if you are having issues. Yes you have to start over but it's better than having a phone that doesn't work.
Phew... now I am happy again! I really thought I was going to have to go back to my Thunderbolt.
OK. I did some digging. I recommend all users download an app called sensorly. It would appear that the reported signal strength by default is 4G. Currently, my 4G is is teetering at -100dBm to no signal and that shows on my phone as no bars. However, I discovered that my 3G is at -90 dBm (excellent coverage). From what I have researched it would appear that the phone has issues handshaking between 3G and 4G which I am sure will be corrected in an OTA update.
If I go to Settings-Wireless & Networks-More-Mobile Networks-Network Mode-CDMA/LTE and switch to CDMA only my bars come up and my dBm appears normal in settings.
I am pretty confident this is a LTE/3G handshake issue. Just like when you leave your home and you are still barely connected to wifi and the phone doesn't know what to use, so all of your apps fail trying to connect. I think it is just the same.
Anyway, I hope this helps others. It has made me less neurotic finding this out.
I had the rezound and returned it because of the headphone noise. Got the nexus and it gets terrible signal and speeds where the rezound was great. Called Verizon and they are sending me another Rezound and told me it shouldn't have the audio problems. We shall see. I just know that the nexus is unusable in my house due to reception.
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(T-Mobile) Randomly Losing Signal

My gsiii for some odd reason loses 4G and sometimes even service. Last night when i was on a call, it dropped and the signal reflected that i was running on edge then it switched to someting that said "G." I looked at my brother's siii and he was also on edge. So i tried putting it on airplane mode however it would not go through. It's as if i never pressed anything. So i had to restart the phone and it was on airplane mode, so i took it off then about a minute and a half later i got 4G back. Today when i was browsing the web, i randomly lost 4G again but this time i continued to have signal just no data. About a minute later I got it back. About a minute later i lost it again and regained it about a minute later. I havent noticed anything else about the phone and ive had it for about a week and last night was the first time that i restarted it. Any ideas? Has anyone else experienced this? Thanks!
I'm also having the same problem it just happened to me today also and happened the other day when I restarted phone it did nothing then I did airplane mode that didn't do anything so I clicked the enable packet data off then on an item came back in hoping it's not going to be a hardware problem cause I've dropped calls for no reason and had no service or bars were showing but had no edge 4G etc
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ballenone said:
I'm also having the same problem it just happened to me today also and happened the other day when I restarted phone it did nothing then I did airplane mode that didn't do anything so I clicked the enable packet data off then on an item came back in hoping it's not going to be a hardware problem cause I've dropped calls for no reason and had no service or bars were showing but had no edge 4G etc
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Yeah it's really weird, when I was using mt4g, it would do that randomly as well, I'm not sure if it's a phone or a network issue. Anyone else experiencing this random drop in data?
Same here I think it's a common issue with tmobile devices.
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I think is just the network it had happened to me but while driving some place and Idk if is the coverage but other then that I do see going from h+ and 3g, I have a custom theme install
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I just moved from Sprint to Tmo and I'm getting the same on my S3. It would look like i have good 4g coverage with 3 bars then all of a sudden it goes to Edge. So I have to wait for it to go back to 4g to start surfing. Edge is like 15kbps for me which is not even modem speed which is 56k. If I accidentally start surfing on Edge it seems to wanna stick to Edge until I close whats using data then it will eventually go to 4g. But when I get 4g its awesome and I get over between 6meg to 12 but only 40% of the time. I called Tmo and they said I have great 4g coverage where I'm at....ya sure.
aznmode said:
I just moved from Sprint to Tmo and I'm getting the same on my S3. It would look like i have good 4g coverage with 3 bars then all of a sudden it goes to Edge. So I have to wait for it to go back to 4g to start surfing. Edge is like 15kbps for me which is not even modem speed which is 56k. If I accidentally start surfing on Edge it seems to wanna stick to Edge until I close whats using data then it will eventually go to 4g. But when I get 4g its awesome and I get over between 6meg to 12 but only 40% of the time. I called Tmo and they said I have great 4g coverage where I'm at....ya sure.
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Ha ha tell them to give you credit Lmao
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It's them rebooting equipment due to all the upgrades they're adding.
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hedjemunkee said:
It's them rebooting equipment due to all the upgrades they're adding.
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This is very good for a lot of reasons!! Can't wait.
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I just checked settings... battery... cell standby... 45 percent without signal.... anyone else check those stats? I got people telling me they called but no record on my phone
cwalker0906 said:
I just checked settings... battery... cell standby... 45 percent without signal.... anyone else check those stats? I got people telling me they called but no record on my phone
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I've only experienced outright loss of signal once, which was last night. So far nothing else has happened really. It was just odd that my phone won't even go into airplane mode until I rebooted the device.
Same thing happened to me. I was actually quite worried and about to send my phone back. Everything seems to be working okay now. No issues.
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this has driven me mad for the past few days. recently I upgraded to a S3 and my dad got a S 4G (which was released 2 years ago). while we were in Costco, my S3 randomly switched to Edge while the S 4G has 4G all the time. ALso we were on vacation to San Francisco so I could experience "Tmo largest 4G network." While we were in a hotel in Fremont, my S3 again switched to Edge and back to 4G randomly while the S 4G had 4G. also the signal is not stable at all. sometimes(1 or 2 times) it even dropped to zero bar. SOMETHING wrong with samsung phones. I read somewhere someone had this issue with the S2 also. I can live with the HSPA+ for 2 years, but hey dont give me random Edge like that
I plan to go exchange for a new phone at Costco... probably a new S3 to see if the issue still exists...
K12123 said:
My gsiii for some odd reason loses 4G and sometimes even service. Last night when i was on a call, it dropped and the signal reflected that i was running on edge then it switched to someting that said "G." I looked at my brother's siii and he was also on edge. So i tried putting it on airplane mode however it would not go through. It's as if i never pressed anything. So i had to restart the phone and it was on airplane mode, so i took it off then about a minute and a half later i got 4G back. Today when i was browsing the web, i randomly lost 4G again but this time i continued to have signal just no data. About a minute later I got it back. About a minute later i lost it again and regained it about a minute later. I havent noticed anything else about the phone and ive had it for about a week and last night was the first time that i restarted it. Any ideas? Has anyone else experienced this? Thanks!
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T-Mobile's 4G network works in a interesting way (do all HSPA+ networks work this way?). They idle in UMTS mode (3G) until there is network activity, and then switch to HSPA+ (4G) mode. The network changing is an automatic thing does to save battery life ("Cellular standby" is often the largest battery drains).
Ever use an AOSP-based ROM (i.e. Cyanogenmod)? You'll sometimes see the network indicator in the status bar switch between 3G to H+ to 4G, etc as you use it. Stock T-Mobile ROMs are hard-coded to always say "4G", but if you go to Settings → About phone → Status, you can watch the network type there change as well as the phone does anything over the cellular network.
You should never be dropping to GPRS or EDGE. Perhaps the mechanism described is defective on your phone?
Happened again today. Had signal but no 4G, not even Edge, just bars. i think it happens whenever the signals low. Thoughts?
I'm having the same issue at my work place. I'm getting Edge (50-80%) more often at my desk, when previously with my SGS2 it stayed at 4G all the time. Checking Cellstandby I am getting 31% time without signal.
Is there a setting to force 4g connection?
My office is in Cupertino, CA and reception is not bad in general, but there are a few locations with 4G dead spots.
I'll check my reception again at home (Santa Clara, CA). I can do a side by side comparison with my SGS2 (now belongs to my wife).
On call with TMO right now, they are going to do a reset of the phone in their system, then I will need to do a reboot. Fingers X'd that things will improve.
BTW, what options do I have to get a replacement phone if I bought mine from Walmart? Do I need to send it in or can I do an instore exchange? Just got it on Sunday. Will I incur any fees if I returned the phone?
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Reset didn't work. Passed on to level 2, there submitting a service request to check reception in the area. Need to follow-up on Friday if the reception is still bad. Since I'm in Cali I do have 30 days to return the phone.
I have similar reception issue but I dont lose signal completely. I will go from 4g(hspa+) to 3g to edge then it will switch back to 4g after 30secs-60secs. Quite annoying since I will be stationary and it will happen and it happens more when Im in a car. Never had this problem when I had the Nexus One.
sfsilicon said:
I'm having the same issue at my work place. I'm getting Edge (50-80%) more often at my desk, when previously with my SGS2 it stayed at 4G all the time. Checking Cellstandby I am getting 31% time without signal.
Is there a setting to force 4g connection?
My office is in Cupertino, CA and reception is not bad in general, but there are a few locations with 4G dead spots.
I'll check my reception again at home (Santa Clara, CA). I can do a side by side comparison with my SGS2 (now belongs to my wife).
On call with TMO right now, they are going to do a reset of the phone in their system, then I will need to do a reboot. Fingers X'd that things will improve.
BTW, what options do I have to get a replacement phone if I bought mine from Walmart? Do I need to send it in or can I do an instore exchange? Just got it on Sunday. Will I incur any fees if I returned the phone?
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Question. With your s2 what happens if you're in an area without 4g? Do you get edge?
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I am having the same issue. I had perfect 4g coverage all over my town, (I live in south texas). The problems started 2 days ago, when I lost all 4g coverage. I took out my sim card and placed it back in and the 4g logo came back on. But now I have been noticing that my cell signal will completely drop and then slowly come back up. This has happened several times. I also went to tmobile and changed my micro sim card and the issue remains. AND NOW I AM ON EDGE!!!!!
Has anyone been able to get a replacement and did it fix the problem?
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Sprint Airave tech finally confirms an issue between S3 LG2 modem and Airave!

I have been talking to Sprint everyday since LG2 was released. Nothing but problems staying connected to Airave. Sometimes I loose 3g for hours, sometimes it drops to 1x, and sometimes voice and data are lost. So, I'm back on LF9 modem as it seems to be the best modem right now. They have done every test on Airave possible, communication between them and Airave is perfect. My brother has HTC EVO LTE and when he comes over, he has none of these issues on Airave. Pretty much narrows it down to the S3 modem itself or modem firmware.
joeyhdownsouth said:
I have been talking to Sprint everyday since LG2 was released. Nothing but problems staying connected to Airave. Sometimes I loose 3g for hours, sometimes it drops to 1x, and sometimes voice and data are lost. So, I'm back on LF9 modem as it seems to be the best modem right now. They have done every test on Airave possible, communication between them and Airave is perfect. My brother has HTC EVO LTE and when he comes over, he has none of these issues on Airave. Pretty much narrows it down to the S3 modem itself or modem firmware.
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i have lg2 modem and my airave works fine..never had problems
eyecon82 said:
i have lg2 modem and my airave works fine..never had problems
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I wish I could say the same, LF9 working better, could be my ISP also, recently found out Lousiana Suddenlink customers statewide had internet issues.
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My GS3 will only connect to my Airave for data, not voice. Power cycled both the Airave and the phone multiple times and nothing I do can get the thing to use the Airave for voice. I can still call out and receive calls, but i'm connected to a native Sprint tower. I don't get the usual tone you hear when you're connected to an Airave, the mobile light doesn't blink, and there's zero bandwidth usage on my router when calling. I can verify through my router that it is definitely connected to the Airave for 3G data though as I can almost peg my slow-ass 1.5 mbps DSL.
My Airave connects fine, but is as bad as it's ever really been. Only get about one or two walls worth of penetration with the stupid thing, it's pretty worthless in larger homes. In 2 bedrooms, the back yard, garage, and office the Airave just causes dropped calls. What I could use is a "Roaming Only" button, as there is very strong Verizon service in the area (those handful of times the phone goes to roaming are very good times).
This happens with the OG Epic, E4GT, GS3, iPhone 4S, and an old blackberry. If only they allowed us to up the xmit power on the things or install better antenna's.
I had LG2 and my airave was working okay. I have lg8 now and it seem to be working the same.
Sprint is sending me the new 2.5 airave device to replace my 2.0 one should have it shortly. Hopefully the new software in the 2.5 will work better. Been having your same issue since I got the device on lf9
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Can you physically tell a difference on the 2.5 from the 2.0. I recently got a new airave and was wondering which one I got.
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Seems like most people have had a decent experience with the Airave? I just ordered one off of ebay. Hoping to get more than 1 freaking bar in my apartment. I drop calls all the time and I have to go outside or stand near a window to get more than one bar. Hoping this will get me a couple more bars. Only spent 37$ for it...so it's not a huge loss if it doesn't work as advertised. I tried to get one free from sprint but alas, they however did say they would pay the 5$ or whatever it is per month so hopefully they'll still do (been a few mths) that when I call them up and tell them I have an Airave.
Yes the 2.5 is smaller and will have airave 2.5 on it. But now I'm running into an issue to where the GPS is saying I am in Austin when I am 20 minutes from downtown Dallas. Call quality has increased but data drop still to 1xrtt however it does pick back up evdo rev a quicker.
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blazerboy567 said:
Yes the 2.5 is smaller and will have airave 2.5 on it. But now I'm running into an issue to where the GPS is saying I am in Austin when I am 20 minutes from downtown Dallas. Call quality has increased but data drop still to 1xrtt however it does pick back up evdo rev a quicker.
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I dont understand why people care if it has 1xrtt or evo rev a, or whatever!!
just turn on the darn wifi and who cares!
I don't pay sprint for data usage and pay Verizon fios for data for nothing. Plus I game don't need excessive bandwidth sucking my latency. Plus the arrive only uses a small amount of bandwidth to convert ur isp signal to evdo rev a
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blazerboy567 said:
I don't pay sprint for data usage and pay Verizon fios for data for nothing. Plus I game don't need excessive bandwidth sucking my latency. Plus the arrive only uses a small amount of bandwidth to convert ur isp signal to evdo rev a
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that still doesn't explain why one can't just turn on the wifi? you are saying too much bandwidth speed is not good?
Pc gaming not on the phone lol
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Pc gaming not on the phone lol
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ah ok.....i get it..you want to save bandwidth for your PC...lol..sorry..my bad
that makes sense...but when people try to use 3g data and complain from an airave, it's a moot point because most phones have wifi now
Yep add tends to stop me from typing in details lmao
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Stock LG2
Sprint sent me an Airave due to poor signal at work. I use WiFi for data while I'm at work so that has never been an issue. I installed it in my server room (one wall between my office and the Airave) and I get full bars. I walk to my company's neighbor which is connected to our buisness and it drops to two bars (three wall and about 40' destance). The signal does drop but its still usable. Over all I am very happy with the product.
Does anyone have any specs on the differences between the 2.0 and 2.5?
Personally I hope they fix the issue of it needing to be in FRONT of your router (right off the modem). Or at least make it so the airraves internal router boots up first before it tries to connect to the sprint service.
Should my device lose power I always lose internet for about 15-20 min while the stupid device boots up and connects... Thankfullyl i'm on a battery backup, but it can be annoying.
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Does anyone have any specs on the differences between the 2.0 and 2.5?
Personally I hope they fix the issue of it needing to be in FRONT of your router (right off the modem). Or at least make it so the airraves internal router boots up first before it tries to connect to the sprint service.
Should my device lose power I always lose internet for about 15-20 min while the stupid device boots up and connects... Thankfullyl i'm on a battery backup, but it can be annoying.
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i have the old one and I don't need to keep it in front of the router...i just plug it in the router like I plug in my computer to the router

Hows the radios working for ya??????

Ok, ready to pull the trigger on a Note 2 but having the ET4G and the issues with reception, Im a little hesitant on Sammy phones now.. I love my Epic T but low up and download speeds kill me. Im missing calls and its not showing up in my call log and texts messages too. I have friends who have the GS3 and some love it and some hate it. Two friends can sit side by side with their SG3 and have totally different reception, I dont get it. I hear the radio and antenna are the same from the GS3 but wondering if the size of the antenna in the Note 2 has changed and if so, is that change enough to help reception issues?
Any input from those who just got one would be greatly appreciated.
I haven't seen lte, but 3g is just as good as you can get on Sprint
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I too have the epic touch, a d then the s3.
Although I cannot comment on note 2,because I don't have it yet, the s3's radio is much better than epic touch.
Instant gps lock and no LOS
I too have the E4G and have just been patiently waiting....I almost jumped on the SIII, but thought I would wait. I think GN2 is what I have been waiting for.
The missed calls (never ringing), daily lock ups and reboots are driving me crazy!
I picked mine up this morning, I'm very happy with reception so far, seeing a lot of improvement over my old epic 4g, and the download speeds seem a tad inproved in my commonly trodden areas
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I cannot hold a steady 3g data connection. Network mode is set to cdma/lte/evdo and it keep bouncing on and off for 3g. just came from the Evo lte and that phone at the same spot can hold a 3g eHDRP or Evdo just fine. Going to see if sprint can reprovision this phone for me. If this is a normal thing with samsung phone then I have no choice but to return it.
theoner1 said:
I cannot hold a steady 3g data connection. Network mode is set to cdma/lte/evdo and it keep bouncing on and off for 3g. just came from the Evo lte and that phone at the same spot can hold a 3g eHDRP or Evdo just fine. Going to see if sprint can reprovision this phone for me. If this is a normal thing with samsung phone then I have no choice but to return it.
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Let us know the outcome please. Haven't jump ship yet thou, just reading a lot cause I don't want to have the LTE connection issue like the evlte.
Thanks
LaloHigh said:
Let us know the outcome please. Haven't jump ship yet thou, just reading a lot cause I don't want to have the LTE connection issue like the evlte.
Thanks
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Update:
Phone is now connecting better after switiching perferred roaming from automatic to sprint only. All my previous phone have no problem when set to automatic roaming. Well at least now my data is not dropping like it was. My real test by putting it on sprint only (home on samsung's phone) is to see if it will connect to LTE where's LTE is available. I will find out after work when I'm on my way home since I get no LTE connection here at work.
Anyone coming from the galaxy s3 miss the simultaneous voice and data? I can't believe this phone can't do it unless connected to lte.
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How is the wifi? The S3 was weak on stock rom, then improved with AOSP roms.
kronium said:
How is the wifi? The S3 was weak on stock rom, then improved with AOSP roms.
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Dont know about s3 but wifi definitely better than my daughter soon to be evo lte.

What's wrong with my Note 2?

Dear T-Mobile Note 2 Fans,
I absolutely love my Tmo Note 2.
However, I have one issue that's bringing me great distress and that I hope the community can point me toward a resolution.
I get no to very weak intermittent signal (no bar) at my home. Other places, I get normal signal.
Phone:
My phone has the latest stock T889UVBMD1. It's rooted. Immaculate. Never been dropped.​
T-Mobile Coverage:
There's excellent T-Mobile coverage at my home area 2G/3G/4G/LTE.​
Experiments:
I have taken my sim out, and inserted it into my wife's T-Mobile HTC One, and have gotten full bar 4G/LTE strong signal. Hence, This exclude possibility of bad sim or poor T-Mobile coverage in the area.​
I have installed other modems (BMB4, VALL4) to no avail.​
I have installed other roms (Jedi Master 16 to no avail.​
I have used KIES to completely restore my phone back to factory state to no avail.​
I have tried going into Setting ---> Network Mode and changed the settings to no avail​
I have tried going into Service Mode via *#2263# and tried to force it to LTE/WDMA and WDMA ALL mode but to no avail.​
I have used Open Signal app on both my wife's HTC One and my Note 2. It seems like the HTC One is connecting to the nearest cell tower. Hence, the strong signal connection. Whereas, the Note 2 is not connecting to the nearest possible cell tower.​
Please kindly help me resolve this issue. Any other places aside from my home, my phone works perfectly fine. At home, I get no to very weak non-usable signal.
Many thanks in advance.
I had the same problem, what worked for me was going into network settings *#2263# and selecting (2) wmcda - all
I get full signal everywhere now & still connect to lte on the data side.
Thank you for the suggestion. I did try *#2263# but to no avail. Zero bar
As if there's an invisible force field around my house preventing JUST my Note 2 from the network.
jcrip said:
I had the same problem, what worked for me was going into network settings *#2263# and selecting (2) wmcda - all
I get full signal everywhere now & still connect to lte on the data side.
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Seems like the internal antenna is having an issue. Hmm, is it overheating?
Only reason I ask is I ran into this issue but with my old GS3. The antenna portion of the phone was burning up at times and not sure why exactly. So I decided Root the phone which resulted in a lost IMEI, injected it back in, still no signal and still the phone was still burning up. Long story short I just eventually just ended up taking it back to Tits-Mobile.
Sam
What worked for me was turning off lte, leaving at max 4g. My signal went from half to full.
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G1Master said:
Seems like the internal antenna is having an issue. Hmm, is it overheating?
Only reason I ask is I ran into this issue but with my old GS3. The antenna portion of the phone was burning up at times and not sure why exactly. So I decided Root the phone which resulted in a lost IMEI, injected it back in, still no signal and still the phone was still burning up. Long story short I just eventually just ended up taking it back to Tits-Mobile.
Sam
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Hi Sam...thank you for replying.
My Note doesn't overheat anymore than usual. It's operating nice and cool. I don't stress it out much...just the usual email, text, phone, web...and the occasional Candy Crush.
rail205 said:
What worked for me was turning off lte, leaving at max 4g. My signal went from half to full.
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Gosh...that's the first thing I did....setting ===> mobile ===> select 4G/3G/2G (not LTE)....but to no avail
I even did the *#2263# and select WDMA ALL...as well, but no luck either
same here
knite75 said:
Dear T-Mobile Note 2 Fans,
I absolutely love my Tmo Note 2.
However, I have one issue that's bringing me great distress and that I hope the community can point me toward a resolution.
I get no to very weak intermittent signal (no bar) at my home. Other places, I get normal signal.
Many thanks in advance.
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many people I've known all have experienced the same shiiiiiit from tmobile
i think tmobile is playing game on its users
tmobile knows where we live and reduce signal ....tmobile knows at home we gonna jamp their bandwidth ....cause we're on unlimitted plan
let's dump tmobile and go for Gosmart
Is that possible? I'm on the $70 PrePaid unlimited plan. There shouldn't be any throttling.
When I do take my sim out of the Note 2 and insert it into my wife's HTC One at home, I do get full bar speedy connection.
Perhaps, they are throttling base on the IMEI of the device, rather than, sim. That's just pure speculation on my part.
voyagerair said:
many people I've known all have experienced the same shiiiiiit from tmobile
i think tmobile is playing game on its users
tmobile knows where we live and reduce signal ....tmobile knows at home we gonna jamp their bandwidth ....cause we're on unlimitted plan
let's dump tmobile and go for Gosmart
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knite75 said:
Is that possible? I'm on the $70 PrePaid unlimited plan. There shouldn't be any throttling.
When I do take my sim out of the Note 2 and insert it into my wife's HTC One at home, I do get full bar speedy connection.
Perhaps, they are throttling base on the IMEI of the device, rather than, sim. That's just pure speculation on my part.
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mine is on $70 pre-paid as well...but can't watch Youtube without having buffering; annoying and embarrassing
my coworkers are on Gosmart $45-plans and watch movie online just fine.
My N2 all test speed @ 20Mbps ....but it's just for show; there is no use.....cause when I tried to download a file just 40Mb....it takes way too long relatively to its speed test.
I think the name Gosmart is realy "go smart"

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