i have a pretty poor signal (3g and 4g) inside my apartment. 4g doesn't come in at all really, and 3g is about 3 bars at most, sometimes it briefly goes to 4 bars. i live on the ground floor of an old brick building, but i'm willing to try any tricks to get a 4g signal indoors (making a ledge for the phone up by the ceiling? by a window?). if i stand in front of my window on the sidewalk i get a fine 4g signal, but i don't want to set my phone on the sidewalk outside to wireless tether
has anyone experimented with any techniques to get a good signal? i heard 4g has a more difficult time penetrating through walls and insulated glass (i just have old windows with 1 single thin pane of glass). is there any way to position the phone to best get a signal (avoiding contact with certain parts of the phone? where is the 4g antenna specifically within the phone, at the top?)? can i somehow make an antenna somehow and place it outside my window and connect it to my phone in some way? are there sprint indoor antenna booster devices of some kind?
forgive me in advance if this has been covered... yes i did try searching but unfortunately when the device itself has "4g" in the name im getting a lot of invalid results
thanks!
I am not one who has run into the LOS just yet, and here's to hoping I don't.
However... I do have terrible signal pretty much inside anywhere. Outside or in the car I have had pretty decent signal everywhere I have gone. However whenever I am inside pretty much anywhere I get 0-1 bar at best, and often even roaming does not function.
Is anyone else experiencing anything like this?
Is there any development for fixes for improved signal/antenna? Is this even possible?
Thanks a lot for everyones time.
That sounds pretty bad. I did notice that the Epic 4G Touch's signal strength is often 1-2 bars lower than the Evo and Evo 3D. This does include inside locations, so I've resorted to using Google Voice for texting and Groove IP for phone calls when I have Wi-fi.
Maybe take the phone to a store that has the same phone in stock and compare signal strength?
I just got this phone a few days ago switched from Verizon and this thing is always roaming im outside at a dog park and its roaming this cant be sprints service im guessing horrible signal strength.
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That sounds pretty bad. I did notice that the Epic 4G Touch's signal strength is often 1-2 bars lower than the Evo and Evo 3D. This does include inside locations, so I've resorted to using Google Voice for texting and Groove IP for phone calls when I have Wi-fi.
Maybe take the phone to a store that has the same phone in stock and compare signal strength?
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Bars are not a comparison of signal strength between phones you have to look at dbs
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I just got the phone a couple days ago and I was having the same issues inside my house. I could not even get the xda app to load. I took out the default proxies and it has helped, at least it feels like that to me.
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This is a well known issue that's been talked about since its release. Hopefully it will be on the list of things they try and fix in they first OTA update along with LOS and Android OS
Not saying this applies to everyone, but I figured out why the particular E4GT I was testing had such jumpy signal levels. I was doing side-by-side comparisons with an Optimus S using menu->settings->about phone->status.
It appears the E4GT has very little granularity with signal strength reporting. It only goes by increments of 5 dBm, whereas the Optimus reports signal levels at a granularity of 1 dBm.
For E4GT, -106 dBm = 0 bar, -101 dBm = 1 bar, -96 dBm = 2 bar, -91 dBm = 3 bar - 86 dBm = 4 bar, -81 dBm = 5 bar, and -76 dBm = 6 bar.
Problem in my main test area is the signal is somewhere between -93 dBm and -98 dBm according to the Optimus S. Whereas the Optimus S can react to small changes in dBm with equally small changes in reported signal strength and "# bars", the E4GT tends to like jumping from -91 dBm to - 101 dBm and back. It only reports certain discrete levels and it appears to be rounding up and down (based on side-by-side signal comparison to Optimus S) They both go up and down at roughly the same time, but Optimus S does it smoothly over time. E4GT just does the signal change reporting very abruptly with 5-10 dBm jumps.
Second thing I noticed is hand and phone positioning really affect the signal strength. The antennae/transmitter appear to be at the bottom hump on the phone. If I place my hands over that area holding the phone normally I can go from 3 bars (-86 dBm) down to 0 bars (-106 dBm). Data starts getting very iffy at -106 dBm but still kind of works, just real slow. If I hold the phone in the middle or near the top, I almost always get the same or better signal. I also found the phone gets the best signal when it is held flat, rather than perpendicular to the ground. In fact the best signal I get is when I'm not holding the phone at all, and instead lay it flat on the table.
Again, I'm not saying every phone behaves this way nor am I saying this explains everyones' signal issues. I'm just relaying my experiences.
BTW the signal levels when laid flat on a table side-by-side to the Optimus S is very comparable, almost the same (minus the lack of granularity). However when I'm holding both phones, the E4GT has generally 5 dBm worse signal, sometimes 10 dBm if I'm holding normally and covering the bottom of the phone.
That is very interesting sfhub.
I really hope the OTA has some bearing on these issues. I really wish it would come out sooner than later. I have another week or so to decide to keep this phone or not and really don't know regardless of if an OTA is released whether i will keep it or not.
There is a lot to like and a lot to drive you crazy about this phone.
I work in a large office building that just happens to be in a 4G LTE coverage area. Unfortunately due to the size of the building and amount of concrete between me and the outside I get little to no coverage in the building. Its actually funny because I got better reception in the building before the LTE towers went up, back in January. Anyway, I've noticed that as long as I leave my screen turned off, my phone will get a couple bars and 3G. Soon as I turn on the screen the bars I have slowly drop to nothing, but I don't (usually) go to "Searching for signal". Even if I only have one or two bars with the screen on I can't make calls or send/receive txts. Anybody else experience this? I've tried several modems and it happens on AOSP and TW ROMs.
hello guys
i bought my lg g3 (d855 32gb ) 10 days ago. phone worked fine for first week after that its signals started to drop . I used to get 2-4 signal bars of 4G on the ground floor but now on the ground floor either my phone loses signal completely or get 1-4 bars of 2G and signal is fluctuating alot .I compared my device signal with my brothers 3 year old xperia arcs and my g3 signal strength was always 10 - 20 dbm less than my brothers arc s . When ever i go from first floor to ground floor my g3 loses signal and it takes time to get signal back but it fluctuates alot. I dont know wheather its a software issue or hardware issue. A little help will be really appreciated. thanks in advance.
So I was getting great wifi signal all 50ft away,
Until I replaced my battery by myself, it was a easy process, it took me 10mins and I was done.
I booted up my tablet and I put it to charge and when I started to use it I saw my wifi signal was very poor,
Like I'm 7ft away from the router and I'm getting 2-3 bars and when I'm in my room, about 22ft away from the router, where i used to get 2-4 bars I'm now getting 0-2 bars. Even right now I'm like 10ft away from the router and I'm getting 0-2 bars and it's pissing me off so bad.
And where is the wifi antenna located on the n5100 because the internet is no help.
I'm running CM13 rom but I never had any internet problems before.
Help me and thanks.
I would try performing a hard factory reset on your device and see if that helps.