HTC Desire's 3G signal is much weaker than 2G.
I am at home, HTC Desire only has 1 to 2 levels of 3G signal, but full signal when turn to 2G. I use same SIM card on my Samsung i8000, 4-5 levels (5 is full) when in 3G.
How to fix the 3G weak signal of HTC Desire?
scott4 said:
HTC Desire's 3G signal is much weaker than 2G.
I am at home, HTC Desire only has 1 to 2 levels of 3G signal, but full signal when turn to 2G. I use same SIM card on my Samsung i8000, 4-5 levels (5 is full) when in 3G.
How to fix the 3G weak signal of HTC Desire?
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Are you rooted? If so, try flashing a different radio version as this can improve 3G speed and signal strength as well as Wi-Fi performance, and battery life.
MasDroid said:
Are you rooted? If so, try flashing a different radio version as this can improve 3G speed and signal strength as well as Wi-Fi performance, and battery life.
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have tried different versions of radio, no luck. which version of Radio is the best ?
2G has a greater range than 3g, I think.
When I'm in the middle of nowhere I always get a 2G signal even if I know there is a 3g tower closer than the 2G one I'm connected to.
I generally get better signal with 2G most of the time.
mercianary said:
2G has a greater range than 3g, I think.
When I'm in the middle of nowhere I always get a 2G signal even if I know there is a 3g tower closer than the 2G one I'm connected to.
I generally get better signal with 2G most of the time.
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Hey guy,
You didn't read my first post carefully.
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HTC Desire's 3G signal is much weaker than 2G.
I am at home, HTC Desire only has 1 to 2 levels of 3G signal, but full signal when turn to 2G. I use same SIM card on my Samsung i8000, 4-5 levels (5 is full) when in 3G.
How to fix the 3G weak signal of HTC Desire?
sorry,
phones perform differently, also some phones give you a misleading scale on the signal level, there is no industry standard as to what signal level 4 bars is afaik. manufacturers have been known to fudge scales of all sorts on their devices to make it appear better than a rival product.
try to get both phones to report signal level in dBm to compare accurately.
I also get relatively poor 3g signal with my desire compared to some other phones i have had...looking at bars, have never compare dBm.
scott4 said:
Hey guy,
You didn't read my first post carefully.
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HTC Desire's 3G signal is much weaker than 2G.
I am at home, HTC Desire only has 1 to 2 levels of 3G signal, but full signal when turn to 2G. I use same SIM card on my Samsung i8000, 4-5 levels (5 is full) when in 3G.
How to fix the 3G weak signal of HTC Desire?
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Bars are no way to tell how strong the signal really is, since i flashed the latest radio i have a decent 3g connection without any bars.
If you already tried different radios there is no way to fix it, different devices will preform differently under the same conditions, nothing to do about that.
TheGhost1233 said:
Bars are no way to tell how strong the signal really is, since i flashed the latest radio i have a decent 3g connection without any bars.
If you already tried different radios there is no way to fix it, different devices will preform differently under the same conditions, nothing to do about that.
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which radio you use regarded as decent?
32.49.00.32U_5.11.05.27, but please understand that that will mean nothing for your situation.
TheGhost1233 said:
32.49.00.32U_5.11.05.27, but please understand that that will mean nothing for your situation.
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this is what I am using. no good.
By the way, to all.
What I mean 3G signal is for voice. the reception is poor for phone call in 3G, it sucks when doing phone calls, but no problem in 2G. I place my SIM card into Samsung i8000, reception is strong and phone call has no suck at all.
Hi all
I am in Germany Dresden.
I‘ve flash XXKL1 for two weeks, wifi works perfect but when I used 3G the signal sometimes drops and speed seems slow.
I find the signal strength in the setting, it is -101dBm 6asu. Does it means the signal isn't so good?
sorry for my bad English.
Is there anyone can help？
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using XDA
-120 is the lowest signal the phone will display. It can still stay connected at values less than that, but it won't show you the reading. Voice will work great, but data will be intermittent and the data connection will drop often.
-60 or less is pretty much the strongest signal you're going to see in real life.
-100 is not great, but should still be useable. I'd expect data speed to be about 75% of what you'd get at full strength. The phone may keep switching from tower to tower every few minutes if you have several nearby.
Anyone here uses 5ghz band on their home wifi network? I currently use it but the signal is so bad. Say i'm 6-7 feet away from the router, i run wifi analyzer on my GN2 to check 5ghz signal strength, and it sits at -70 to -80 db. Now if I go to my room signal drops tremendously and then it disconnects from wifi.
I initially thought maybe my router, which is a netgear WDNR4000, has issues. But after comparing the signal strength my laptop gets, i determined my router is perfectly fine. I ran inSSIDer to check signal strength on wifi.
Anyway, if you happen to be using 5ghz band, can you let me know how good/bad your signal is? If it's bad, what did you do to improve it?
I have 5ghz and 2.5ghz support on my wireless router. on my pc at home i always get 100% signal on the 2.5ghz, whereas I get around 75%-80% on 5ghz channel.
i believe that the 5ghz signal degrades more rapidly with distance, it's nothing really to do with the phone.
So based from what you are saying, this is normal for 5ghz signal? I guess my laptop uses more power or has better wifi card which is why it has stronger 5ghz signal.
iwin2000 said:
i believe that the 5ghz signal degrades more rapidly with distance, it's nothing really to do with the phone.
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I'm inclined to agree with this all my devices with 5ghz see this drop off quicker than 2.5ghz
Regurgitated From My Giant Note II
It's a known fact the 5ghz does have better speeds but lacks distance and penetration compared to 2.5ghz.
peekeesh said:
So based from what you are saying, this is normal for 5ghz signal? I guess my laptop uses more power or has better wifi card which is why it has stronger 5ghz signal.
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Your laptop has a larger antenna in it.
Sent from my Samsung Galaxy Note II.
I've had the phone for about 10 days and I've consistently noticed that my G3 has a much weaker wifi signal than other phones, both at work and at home. At my house about 5 feet away from the router it was registering 1 bar on the 5Ghz network and about 2 or 3 bars on the 2.4 Ghz. Being that close to the router it should be full! The 5Ghz also has problems staying connected. At work where I used to have full bars with my GS4 and other phones and now I only get 1 or 2. While I haven't had the same problem as others with wifi dropping, it is rather annoying that the signal is so much weaker and I have noticed that with the reduced signal strength my connections are slower. I really hope its a software issue and not hardware related. I'm seriously thinking about going to T-Mobile and asking them to look into it.
My WiFi signal strength for 5Ghz keeps fluctuating and is really weak, but 2.4Ghz has no issues.. My other phone has better signal strength!
Does anyone have a work around for this? I have tried arters and elementx kernel and issue still persist on both..