I recently got the Otterbox Commuter after breaking my screen and having it replaced, but it seems like my signal has degraded since putting this case on.
Anyone else have the same issue, or can you recommend an app that accurately tell me the signal strength so I may test with the case on and off?
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I have my Otterbox Commuter for two months now. Never interfered with rhe signal. Even bluetooth or wifi.
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No problem with mine!
No problems here.
To test Wi-Fi strength use Wi-Fi Analyzer. You get a decent signal strength graph. You may even find out your Wi-Fi is on the same channel as all your neighbors!
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No problems here..
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I bought my OtterBox on the 3rd day going naked, I haven't noticed any signal drops that weren't my fault. You can always switch the signal status to read in dBm as opposed to the graphical bars to see if there is a problem.
Liskrig said:
I bought my OtterBox on the 3rd day going naked, I haven't noticed any signal drops that weren't my fault. You can always switch the signal status to read in dBm as opposed to the graphical bars to see if there is a problem.
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Wait how do change that?
Otter box is notorious for signal loss and call echo problems.
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No signal loss here
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Never had an issue with signal loss. Use an app known as "Open Signal" in the Play store to measure signals. Setting your statusbar to display a numeric value or dBM depends on your rom features. Stock isn't going to do this. Some AOSP roms do.
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Okay. I thought I didn't have stellar service in my area. (Bounces from 0 to 2 bars, depending) Now my tutor, who has a DX, pulls 3-4 bars where I get none! Same exact time, same exact place! WTF gives HTC!
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What radio are you using? I noticed a full bar increase when I flashed updated radio
Im stock, unrooted. So whatever they give out stock. Im waiting for OTA gingerbread to root.
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3 or 4 bars seems extreme. Could be a hardware defect. My buddy has DX and we both get no service in my basement and terrible service upstairs. So it's not universal.
Edit: could be your phones are on different towers. I know I seen a thread about configuring what tower you connect to.
I have this problem too! My signal sucks most of tthe time. When im in the 18th floor of a building in Boston I get like 1 or 2 bars. Which radio is best to flash? I've never flashed a radio before
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Thing is guys you can't go by the bars they can be misleading....although the icredible does have a know problem with bad signal but if you really want to know your signal strength go to main menu, then go down to about phone, then click on network signal that's the real signal..... -85 to -75 is about average
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rosser725 said:
I have this problem too! My signal sucks most of tthe time. When im in the 18th floor of a building in Boston I get like 1 or 2 bars. Which radio is best to flash? I've never flashed a radio before
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Bars are meaningless. They are not a good indicator of signal strength. Follow the instructions posted by newtoroot to see what your signal strength actually is.
The best radio is the one that gives you the best combination of signal and battery usage. No one can tell you which one will work best on your individual phone in your specific location. The only way to know which one will work best is to test drive each one for a few days and se which suits your needs best.
My signal is -91 dbm. Total crap. :/
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Bud my signal is -95 right now leave it on that screen and walk around and watch how it changes
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I'm haven't moved for an hour and it sits at -91 dbm. Wtf.
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Just switched from 09.01 radio to 11.19 and I my signal went from -75dBm to -69dBm. Not a huge improvement but still an improvement.
A word of caution: BE EXTREMELY CAREFUL IF YOU TRY TO FLASH A NEW RADIO. THE INCREDIBLE I HOLD IN MY HAND IS BECAUSE I FLASHED A RADIO AND BRICKED MY OLD HTC ERIS
Sorry for yelling, but seriously be carefull.
because your holding it the wrong way.
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try a prl updated. *22899 i have had better reception now that they updated it
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because your holding it the wrong way.
(sorry i couldn't resist)
try a prl updated. *22899 i have had better reception now that they updated it
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Is this *22899 any different from the regular *228 press option 2?
*22899 seemed to work for me
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Is this *22899 any different from the regular *228 press option 2?
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Yes, it just skips the automated voice and jumps into the music (updating)
This phone definitely has some kind of signal issue or something. Especially with SMS. I have to resend messages all the time for "general SMS error" is usually what it says. Quite frustrating and ill probably end up with a phone that's been smashed into a million bits someday.
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broons said:
This phone definitely has some kind of signal issue or something. Especially with SMS. I have to resend messages all the time for "general SMS error" is usually what it says. Quite frustrating and ill probably end up with a phone that's been smashed into a million bits someday.
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Had this same EXACT problem! You're gonna need a new phone bro....
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I'm getting a semi high time without signal. Is it my area or a bug?
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Mines low. Might be the area?
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There was a bug in older phones, especially running 2.1. I had it with my Eris. I considered it a visual-only bug...meaning it didn't affect my battery life at all. You could tell if you had it because the Time without Signal would sit at exactly 50%.
From my limited use of my new DINC2, I don't believe it has this issue. So unfortunately it may be your coverage area.
To correct the TWS display, there was a fix involving airplane mode. This would drop the TWS number down after using the phone for awhile. As I said, I'm fairly certain it was inaccurate, as in my city I'm hardly ever without even a 3G signal. If yours is showing something other than 50%, then this bug is likely not the cause.
Mine is 1%.
Mine ranges from 6-24%..prob my area...ft riley Kansas....
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There was a bug in older phones, especially running 2.1. I had it with my Eris. I considered it a visual-only bug...meaning it didn't affect my battery life at all. You could tell if you had it because the Time without Signal would sit at exactly 50%.
From my limited use of my new DINC2, I don't believe it has this issue. So unfortunately it may be your coverage area.
To correct the TWS display, there was a fix involving airplane mode. This would drop the TWS number down after using the phone for awhile. As I said, I'm fairly certain it was inaccurate, as in my city I'm hardly ever without even a 3G signal. If yours is showing something other than 50%, then this bug is likely not the cause.
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Yea I had that back in the day
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My time without signal is 0%, even though my bars and 3g indicator would say otherwise. My cell standby is only 7 minutes though. That may be a whole other problem all together.
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My time without signal is 0%, even though my bars and 3g indicator would say otherwise. My cell standby is only 7 minutes though. That may be a whole other problem all together.
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I believe doing certain things, such as rebooting your device, will reset the counters. It could be 0% since the last counter reset.
*228 option 2
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*228 option 2
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Dial it up...
Let us know if it (or anything) helps!
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Dial it up...
Let us know if it (or anything) helps!
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I did...it updated my prl..I just have terrible signal on my base..
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Sorry, but thanks!
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Mine increased its speed and signal 1.5~2 times than without the foil.
By doing that your connecting the wifi, gps and radio antennas together with the tin foil. Bound to cause some problems in the long run.
Runs good. Guess you are wrong.
Looks like the wifi and 3g antennas are bridged but the gps has been gone around (the one at the top).
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hmm.. wanting to try this but also not. even if not now, it does seem very possible that connecting the wifi and the 3G antenna should/will cause a problem.
Normally both radios wouldn't be running at the same time. But what would happen when running wifi tether?
Stole my thread bro. But that's an interesting way you did it.
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bik2101 said:
hmm.. wanting to try this but also not. even if not now, it does seem very possible that connecting the wifi and the 3G antenna should/will cause a problem.
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I would avoid it. The radio engineers did it their way for a reason.
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Another Chinese mod... Not the smartest move in the long run especially with health and safety standards. The phones are designed to take in only so much information and data at a time. Doing this is like overclocking your processor and in time comes with a price. Use at own discretion.
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Which one is the phone antenna ?
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church101 said:
Which one is the phone antenna ?
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the one with the longer gold strip
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Normally both radios wouldn't be running at the same time. But what would happen when running wifi tether?
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Also curious, to the OP, have you tried running wifi tether with the foil?
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bik2101 said:
the one with the longer gold strip
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Woo hoo think ill come up with something with foil and super glue
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bik2101 said:
the one with the longer gold strip
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I believe it's the top one. I tested it multiple times.
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Also curious, to the OP, have you tried running wifi tether with the foil?
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I'll test it and report back
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Also curious, to the OP, have you tried running wifi tether with the foil?
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I'll test it and report back
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I believe it's the top one. I tested it multiple times.
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Sure about that? Because when I tried the foil trick on just the bottom one I lost signal which wouldn't happen If it was the ones on top.
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I believe it's the top one. I tested it multiple times.
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How did you test it?
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The antenna next to the camera is GPS. GPS uses a loop. If you'll notice, the gold strip covers both contacts to form a complete loop.
The mobile antenna is on the bottom with the long strip.
Bridging all of the antennas is bound to cause some problems. If you have both radios on, but leave wifi disconnected, it will stay mostly off as it periodically polls for access points.
The mobile radio works similarly. While not on a call and not using data, it isn't maintaining a constant connection. It periodically polls for updates and connectivity.
In the end, not all of the radios will be firing at once.
With minor testing you might not notice any problems. Keep in mind the problem that plagued the iPhone was exposed antennas for different radios being bridged causing dropped calls.
I'd be interested in seeing some real world testing and not quick benchmarks. Try some google maps navigation and see how reliable it is. Make a phone call while connected to wifi. Try some wifi tethering. Wifi tether while browsing google maps on your device to activate all 3 of the radios affected. I'm genuinely curious what the results would be.
Yeah this isnt a good idea. For whatever reason it might run fine now, but there is something called SWR (standing wave ratio) which is reflected power back to the transmitter. If you have a high SWR due to unmatched load (antenna) then you will eventually degrade the RF front end of the transmitting radios in addition to inefficient radiation of the signal.
As it was mentioned before, great received signal and data download, but poor upload...this to me is a direct indication that the transmit side is mis-matched and most of the power is being reflected back to the transmitter. The great received signal is really irrelevant because cell base stations transmit high power...around 20 watts while our handsets are on the order of 0.3 watts or less so overall receive performance is going to be good regardless of a properly matched antenna.
Bottom line, I wouldn't recommend this.
I have 4 full bars and my 3g keeps dropping, not fully connecting, and downloads around 5kilobytes a sec. I went from cm7 back to my nand of stock sense and still have the problem. I can barely load xda.
Anyone got any ideas why?
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Maybe there is some kind of outage where you live?
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Yeah what above said. I get 2 bars avg in my house and get about 800kbps, 4 bars I get 1mbps, They may be working on the towers out there also
Any chance you might have given them reason to throttle you data connection down?
I also experience dramatic drops in data speeds at peak times and it is location specific where I live. At 2300 in my neighborhood I get great speeds, but at the same time at work (which is full of people still awake and likely using their network) I get really bogged down.
Either a possible factor?
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I think the reason why people get horrible speeds at work is because there is probably too much electronic interference.
But then again, when someone says "work" I imagine someone sitting in a cubicle.
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Yeah what above said. I get 2 bars avg in my house and get about 800kbps, 4 bars I get 1mbps, They may be working on the towers out there also
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Interesting, 4 bars at my place equals 1.5 to 2.5 mpbs and 1 bar equals around 7-800 kbps.
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Interesting, 4 bars at my place equals 1.5 to 2.5 mpbs and 1 bar equals around 7-800 kbps.
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Any chance you might have given them reason to throttle you data connection down?
I also experience dramatic drops in data speeds at peak times and it is location specific where I live. At 2300 in my neighborhood I get great speeds, but at the same time at work (which is full of people still awake and likely using their network) I get really bogged down.
Either a possible factor?
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besides the "3G hack" is there anyway to prevent from being throttled on a non rooted 2.3.3 dinc2?
I was under the impression that even with the hack you can get throttled
But I also understand you need to be using GBs/month to make that happen. Most people would have a hard time getting there.
I stream Pandora ALL the time, and I usually get between 1 and 2 GBs of useage. I'm also using my phone for most of my internet browsing.
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I think the reason why people get horrible speeds at work is because there is probably too much electronic interference.
But then again, when someone says "work" I imagine someone sitting in a cubicle.
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Well my work is far from a cubicle....
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Well my work is far from a cubicle....
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Same here.
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There's a lot of things that will influence your throughput. Signal strength is only one of a few. Signal quality and available bandwidth will also influence it. A strong signal with a bit of noise will cause problems.
Try *228 option 2, then reboot, and see if it helps.
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There's a lot of things that will influence your throughput. Signal strength is only one of a few. Signal quality and available bandwidth will also influence it. A strong signal with a bit of noise will cause problems.
Try *228 option 2, then reboot, and see if it helps.
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Did that and I lost signal indefinitely till I did a full reset.
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Kaze105 said:
Interesting, 4 bars at my place equals 1.5 to 2.5 mpbs and 1 bar equals around 7-800 kbps.
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There's only two verizon towers in my city if that helps lol. I don't know much about towers but I know one of them is 4G because we have 4G here
I live in Orlando area, and I'm having issues with 3G today as well. Phone keeps trying to sync also. I think Verizon may have network issues today. I haven't installed any new apps, and I only use 1 widget that syncs, which is Twitter.
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I live in Orlando area, and I'm having issues with 3G today as well. Phone keeps trying to sync also. I think Verizon may have network issues today. I haven't installed any new apps, and I only use 1 widget that syncs, which is Twitter.
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I'm in Cali and had the same problem late last night. I think they are doing something with the towers cause my signal is fine now.
I'm getting throttled and it sucks. I have been getting 1x internet everywhere I go ever since I reached 3GB in the first week.
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I'm getting throttled and it sucks. I have been getting 1x internet everywhere I go ever since I reached 3GB in the first week.
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Well that's a no-brainer. WTF did you do? Torrent pr0n whilst tethered?
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Well that's a no-brainer. WTF did you do? Torrent pr0n whilst tethered?
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Verizon is cracking the whip on "free" tethering. I read in an article that it can be tracked if your phone is on gingerbread. I'm not sure, maybe one of the devs could weigh in, but I read there was code written into GB to help them track it. If I can find the article, I'll link it.
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Verizon is cracking the whip on "free" tethering. I read in an article that it can be tracked if your phone is on gingerbread. I'm not sure, maybe one of the devs could weigh in, but I read there was code written into GB to help them track it. If I can find the article, I'll link it.
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Please do, cause on my Rom I use, everything Verizon is removed
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I've got the Nexus on Verizon and I am getting terrible cell reception. From where I am my other family members iPhone 4 is getting 3 bars while mine is either 1-2 bars or struggling to find a signal. To me this is a huge dealbreaker and I wanted to know if this is an unfixable hardware issue or a software issue that will be fixed in a later update because if it is hardware then I might use my exchange to get the HTC Rezound. Any help would be great, thanks!
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Good luck with this thread. The fan boys will dominate you soon saying there are no problems. I have a thread on here highlighting the issues "sgn bad reception" and its clear as day there is an issue. But everyone will defend it.
However the adr mod with the xxkk6 radio seems to be a bit better for me anyways.
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Well being a fan boy dosent help anything because there is definetly something wrong here. Standing in the same spot as me, the iPhone is getting several bars while mine cannot even find a signal.
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Mine has terrible signal. My 4g is useless. It seems even on 3g my battery is eaten by my phone looking for solid signal.I can't listen to Pandora on 3g without buffering. I had a rent a razor. It had amazing 4g Always. Tier 2 cs offered to send me a new gnex. I didn't take it. I don't think it will fix anything. Thinking about trading back for a Razr. I
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I have fantastic 4G signal almost everywhere in Atlanta GA. Had a bit of a glitch inside a large high rise building though on the 19th. no 4G at all there and it seems hand-off to 3g isn't that great. Been solid since though.
Nevermind. I'm just cranky.
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Yeah if it doesn't improve by the time I reach the end of my exchange window, I am going to exchange for another phone and just put ICS on it. Its a shame because I really like the os :/
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