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Verizon GN terrible wifi signal

Is this normal for the GN? Do I have a faulty device? On wifi, my download speeds are horrible for this type of device. At home, I have comcast broadband, and a comcast router. My GS2 destroyed downloads at a ridiculous rate. We're talking MBs a second. Full wifi signal. My GN barely holds 3 bars. Consistently downloading at a couple hundreds kb/s
Before you say anything, no it's not my router. I've 2 laptops, a PS3, a kindle, and a TV, all hooked up to the router, and they've no problem.
If this is the way it's going to be, and exchanging the device won't help, I guess I'll cancel verizon, and head to sprint and pick up another sg2. IDK.
Anything guys? For a device like this to be faulty in an area like downloads via wifi, especially when verizon charges up the butt for data, it's unacceptable.

cam1john said:
Is this normal for the GN? Do I have a faulty device? On wifi, my download speeds are horrible for this type of device. At home, I have comcast broadband, and a comcast router. My GS2 destroyed downloads at a ridiculous rate. We're talking MBs a second. Full wifi signal. My GN barely holds 3 bars. Consistently downloading at a couple hundreds kb/s
Before you say anything, no it's not my router. I've 2 laptops, a PS3, a kindle, and a TV, all hooked up to the router, and they've no problem.
If this is the way it's going to be, and exchanging the device won't help, I guess I'll cancel verizon, and head to sprint and pick up another sg2. IDK.
Anything guys? For a device like this to be faulty in an area like downloads via wifi, especially when verizon charges up the butt for data, it's unacceptable.
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I am actually going to say it. It could be your router. The GN is finnicky as hell with wifi channels. Wifi channels will affect signal strength, stability of connection, and speed of intarwebz.
Now before you say it: Not all wifi chipsets and devices are created equally. It is a phone, it doesn't exactly have a hi gain antenna in it

For a $750 phone, you think the parts would be equal to other phones. If it is my router, I have like 6 other devices on it that work just fine, so I think it I can safely blame it on the phone. Deal breaker I think.
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cam1john said:
For a $750 phone, you think the parts would be equal to other phones. If it is my router, I have like 6 other devices on it that work just fine, so I think it I can safely blame it on the phone. Deal breaker I think.
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To each their own.
To not even consider my suggestion of checking out other wifi channels is a disservice to the device and yourself.

cam1john said:
For a $750 phone, you think the parts would be equal to other phones. If it is my router, I have like 6 other devices on it that work just fine, so I think it I can safely blame it on the phone. Deal breaker I think.
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Sounds like you should swoop an iPhone. If you are using a N Draft router you need to select a certain channel range (Google it, you'll find it). I pull 10-20 MBPs on WiFi. Its not that hard to change your wifi channel btw.

Ya well I had a gs2 and absolutely no problems. This phones a bit laggy, battery life seems much worse, even with juice defender. Paying more per month for it. I guess I expected more.
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cam1john said:
Ya well I had a gs2 and absolutely no problems. This phones a bit laggy, battery life seems much worse, even with juice defender. Paying more per month for it. I guess I expected more.
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Use what makes you happy. No point in continuing thread. I gotta say, I thought you came here for help.
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adrynalyne said:
Use what makes you happy. No point in continuing thread. I gotta say, I thought you came here for help.
<yoda voice> Mistaken, I was. </yoda voice>
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Here's a question, with data disabled, and only text messaging, why did my battery drain 5% in 6 minutes? I literally stood and had a conversation and looked at my phone, and it went from 38% to 33% in 6 minutes. This is also the extended battery
In fact, it just drained 3% in the time it took me to write this post out.
Ridiculous.
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cam1john said:
Here's a question, with data disabled, and only text messaging, why did my battery drain 5% in 6 minutes? I literally stood and had a conversation and looked at my phone, and it went from 38% to 33% in 6 minutes. This is also the extended battery
In fact, it just drained 3% in the time it took me to write this post out.
Ridiculous.
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You aren't looking for help, so why are you continuing this thread?
If it took 3% to post this, you are either the world's slowest typer or lying. I am sorry but you lost your credibility with me when you refused a simple suggestion that would have taken you all of 3 minutes to test and instead decided to bash the device. Your agenda was not to come here for help.

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You aren't looking for help, so why are you continuing this thread?
If it took 3% to post this, you are either the world's slowest typer or lying. I am sorry but you lost your credibility with me when you refused a simple suggestion that would have taken you all of 3 minutes to test and instead decided to bash the device. Your agenda was not to come here for help.
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Yes I did come here for help. I would have liked another suggestion other than one pertaining to messing with my router channels. Which in turn would probably interfere with the other 6 devices on my router and I'd end up going around in a circle.
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cam1john said:
Yes I did come here for help. I would have liked another suggestion other than one pertaining to messing with my router channels. Which in turn would probably interfere with the other 6 devices on my router and I'd end up going around in a circle.
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I guess we will never know, seeing how you know better without ever trying
What other solutions did you think you would find for your device? A cantenna? Changing channels is the first thing you should try in these cases.
Could we have determined that maybe something is wrong with your device? Sure. But you can't teach someone who knows it all.
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I understand that you're in love with this phone. But because you might not have problems doesn't mean others don't either.
Yes, my battery is draining as fast as I posted. If you don't have any viable solutions, I would like to hear what others have to say.
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cam1john said:
I understand that you're in love with this phone. But because you might not have problems doesn't mean others don't either.
Yes, my battery is draining as fast as I posted. If you don't have any viable solutions, I would like to hear what others have to say.
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Me too. Two people tried to help you in this thread by suggesting trying different channels. Lets wait and see what else others have to say and you can cherry pick your solution because you know what the problem is
Best of luck to you and I hope you get your issue worked out.

adrynalyne said:
Me too. Two people tried to help you in this thread by suggesting trying different channels. Lets wait and see what else others have to say and you can cherry pick your solution because you know what the problem is
Best of luck to you and I hope you get your issue worked out.
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Whatever dude. Battery in this thing sucks. Not worth it. I have to be afraid to turn on my Nexus or my battery will drain. I timed it for about 20 minutes. All I was doing was moving around in my settings and in my phone, no browsing, no games, etc. My battery drained 1% every 2 minutes, probably take a few seconds. Just to roam around my phone, my battery was dying practically by the minute. This is with the extended battery and NOW juice defender ultimate. No network, wifi only, full brightness.
Why would I lie? I have no reason to lie. Truly I was looking for answers at first, then you got all upset because this phones your baby. If this phone's charge lasts you all day, you apparently don't use it the way it was made to be used.
I'm now turning on auto brightness which will obviously make a difference, but will totally offset the ENTIRE point of purchasing this device, which is the screen and it's beauty. That is, unless you're sitting right next to a charger.
Whatever. No help here.

cam1john said:
Whatever dude. Battery in this thing sucks. Not worth it. I have to be afraid to turn on my Nexus or my battery will drain. I timed it for about 20 minutes. All I was doing was moving around in my settings and in my phone, no browsing, no games, etc. My battery drained 1% every 2 minutes, probably take a few seconds. Just to roam around my phone, my battery was dying practically by the minute. This is with the extended battery and NOW juice defender ultimate. No network, wifi only, full brightness.
Why would I lie? I have no reason to lie. Truly I was looking for answers at first, then you got all upset because this phones your baby. If this phone's charge lasts you all day, you apparently don't use it the way it was made to be used.
I'm now turning on auto brightness which will obviously make a difference, but will totally offset the ENTIRE point of purchasing this device, which is the screen and it's beauty. That is, unless you're sitting right next to a charger.
Whatever. No help here.
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Can't help the helpless. You did not post battery stats, you were never open to any suggestions with your first problem. Now we can glean from your post that you were likely at max brightness and are confused the battery was being drained by the screen. Derp.
Truly I was looking for answers at first, then you got all upset because this phones your baby.
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Changing wireless channels is normal troubleshooting for any wireless device with connection issues. I got upset because this phone is my baby? Mine works. Not upset in the least!
I used to do Microsoft support when I was younger--
You know what we used to do with difficult folks like you who refused to try troubleshooting due to them 'knowing' so much? Format their machines and send them on their way. You just can't help those who know it all. Why ask for help if you already know everything?
Move on, Mr. Troll. Another device awaits you.

cam1john said:
Whatever. No help here.
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seriously? you want to try and claim no help?
if you had tried the suggestion of changing wifi channel, people would continue to help. if you cant even understand/are willing to try basic troubleshooting, you are right... there is no help for you. no one wants to deal with someone who wont even think about trying suggestions.

battery drain issue
I started experiencing the same kind of battery drain issue you're talking about (if I was reading a kindle with screen brightness at minimum in airplane mode my battery would last less than an hour, and that was extended life battery) and it turned out I had a bad phone. Verizon replaced it (finally, after I showed them a screen dying with dead pixels and off colors) and my battery life increased. But not as much as I would have liked! Turned out bad phone ruined my extended life battery. Got a new one, no longer have "battery anxiety" - maybe call the company, explain what's happening, and try a replacement before you decide "all" GNEX are crap.
WIFI reach on phone is not as good as on my Galaxy 10.1 Tab, but my D/L speeds are pretty much consistent with everything else on network, so all your problems could be the same.

LOL @ This epic fail of a thread. The OP is beyond help as there's no helping the intentionally obtuse.
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[Q] Battery bug

So my least favorite part about running custom roms on this phone is the "freeze at 45%, reboot to 6%" bug. Does anyone know if this is ever going to be fixed? Or if it is even a real"bug"? Do other phones experience this or just Galaxy S? I don't remember it being an issue when I ran stock, though honestly it was probably only for like a week.

Like this.
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Been running custom ROMs since December 2010 and never got a freeze ran all the way down to 3%.
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Like this.
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I think you meant to post this meme..
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Because this question does not retain to the Atrix 4G (though I am curious as to whether the flashable in that thread would work on cm9 for our phones.) and the other thread you posted is just more lames like you thinking this problem has been solved for the Epic. Now the whole point of a forum is to be able to ask questions in Q+A because others might know the answer already.. but I HAVE googled this (yes even with the site:xda-developers.com filter) and all I can find as far as the epic goes is people telling others to plug their charger in while its off to calibrate it. That doesn't help if you don't have a charger and it doesn't answer my question about whether or not it will be truly fixed for the epic and not "handy manned".. so basically unless you can post a thread that has a flashable software fix or a thread containing above said fix for this then please don't bother and keep your smart ass responses to yourself.
Edit: gushy apology later in thread.

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kennyglass123 said:
Been running custom ROMs since December 2010 and never got a freeze ran all the way down to 3%.
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Your lucky... I've had it run down to 2-3%. It sucks when your nowhere near a charger.

never had a problem running my battery all the way down to 1% with the stock 1500mah and the et4g 1800mah batteries. I do remember a couple of the GB leaks that would occasionally shutdown before they hit 5% but lets be honest, that was expected of buggy leaks. Since moving to CM7/CM9/AOKP zero battery issues. Sure, some days i barely make it through the day off the charger, but most days i'm good to go. I do on occasion see the "reboot your phone with 40% battery and boots back up at 15%" "bug" but i don't reboot my phone that often like that, normally i'll shut it down and don't have that issue.

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never had a problem running my battery all the way down to 1% with the stock 1500mah and the et4g 1800mah batteries. I do remember a couple of the GB leaks that would occasionally shutdown before they hit 5% but lets be honest, that was expected of buggy leaks. Since moving to CM7/CM9/AOKP zero battery issues. Sure, some days i barely make it through the day off the charger, but most days i'm good to go. I do on occasion see the "reboot your phone with 40% battery and boots back up at 15%" "bug" but i don't reboot my phone that often like that, normally i'll shut it down and don't have that issue.
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Yeah I've never had it just die on me because it was reporting juice and was actually dead.. and I'll have to test and see if it does it when I do a complete shutdown cause I almost never shut it down. Almost always involuntary reboots for me that come back up with anywhere from 2%-20% .

kennyglass123 said:
Been running custom ROMs since December 2010 and never got a freeze ran all the way down to 3%.
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I've ran mine down to literally 0% it shows an X for battery and it was still on and running but i soon shut it off so i could charge it haha

OP, are you undervolting? If so that is the probable cause of you freezes when your battery gets under 50%. It is not a glass full of energy. Percentage is a direct correlation to voltage. 100% is 4.2V, I believe 0% is 3.7V. As you get below 50% that undervolting will drop even further. As for the percentage fifference it is usually a false reading based on the heat of the battery lowering the voltage reading during the intense drain of rebooting. Usually taking the battery out for a few minutes to cool will bring it back to the 40% or so.
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Because this question does not pertain[fixed for you] to the Atrix 4G (though I am curious as to whether the flashable in that thread would work on cm9 for our phones.) and the other thread you posted is just more lames like you thinking this problem has been solved for the Epic. Now the whole point of a forum is to be able to ask questions in Q+A because others might know the answer already.. but I HAVE googled this (yes even with the site:xda-developers.com filter) and all I can find as far as the epic goes is people telling others to plug their charger in while its off to calibrate it. That doesn't help if you don't have a charger and it doesn't answer my question about whether or not it will be truly fixed for the epic and not "handy manned".. so basically unless you can post a thread that has a flashable software fix or a thread containing above said fix for this then please don't bother and keep your smart ass responses to yourself.
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First off, I may have misunderstood your question, but I did provide a response, regardless. Responding as an ungrateful tool is unnecessary.
And as to not "pertaining" to the Atrix, you DID ask if other phones were affected.
But to the point, I mistook your question to be simply asking why the phone misreads the battery level upon reboot as mentioned:
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[...]"reboot your phone with 40% battery and boots back up at 15%" "bug"[...]
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I see now that you quite literally mean that your phone is failing to report below a certain level until it dies. To answer your question, I've never seen this, but it would help if you would provide basic information.
1. Rom Tested
2. Undervolting/Overclocking settings
3. Any additional changes you've made after installing a rom
This doesn't sound like a typical battery reporting error others have experienced. Are you undervolting?
P.S. Grow a sense of humor. You'll live longer.

RandomKing said:
First off, I may have misunderstood your question, but I did provide a response, regardless. Responding as an ungrateful tool is unnecessary.
And as to not "pertaining" to the Atrix, you DID ask if other phones were affected.
But to the point, I mistook your question to be simply asking why the phone misreads the battery level upon reboot as mentioned:
I see now that you quite literally mean that your phone is failing to report below a certain level until it dies. To answer your question, I've never seen this, but it would help if you would provide basic information.
1. Rom Tested
2. Undervolting/Overclocking settings
3. Any additional changes you've made after installing a rom
This doesn't sound like a typical battery reporting error others have experienced. Are you undervolting?
P.S. Grow a sense of humor. You'll live longer.
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My bad your right. I never work mornings and am in a horrible mood because I happen to be working with my *****y manager (who never works mornings either) and we are clashing hardcore. Sorry I jumped down your throat. To answer ya'lls question I am on cm9 beta 3, but have always had random reboots once in awhile so honestly while its an experimental build I don't think that's the cause of my reboots I'm on the latest Shadow kernel. No undervolting. But anyway the purpose of this thread isn't really to find out why I'm getting reboots (though I appreciate you guys trying to help me find that out too) but rather to find out why my battery drains so much afterwards. So yes you were correct in your original assumtion.
Edit: my excellent meme reference is proof of my sense of humor.

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Edit: my excellent meme reference is proof of my sense of humor.
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Fair enough ;-).
All I can say is that with the full battery circle mod, rebooting often shows a really low percentage. If you leave it, it usually slowly rises back to where it should be... not sure that's your problem.
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I understand what the OP is saying, and I too have this problem. Mostly when I go to cwm and return. My battery sometimes goes from a 60 or even 70 to a 5-19%. Its not all that's bad of a problem because I know that I have more than that in my battery. But it makes the phone scary because you never know when it'll blow up on you lol.
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lilajrestnom said:
it makes the phone scary because you never know when it'll blow up on you lol.
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Exactly. and today I did a little experiment. I drained to 50% percent and did a manual reboot. I did like kenny and random suggested and let it cool down before I rebooted and while it was better.. it was still not correct... I rebooted to around 25%. Now the atrix folks in that forum apparently have a flashable software fix for this that works. Does anyone wanna take that apart and see if they can work for us? Sorry this just seems so fixable I'm honestly surprised that with our kickin dev community nobody's worked on it.

schnowdapowda said:
Exactly. and today I did a little experiment. I drained to 50% percent and did a manual reboot. I did like kenny and random suggested and let it cool down before I rebooted and while it was better.. it was still not correct... I rebooted to around 25%. Now the atrix folks in that forum apparently have a flashable software fix for this that works. Does anyone wanna take that apart and see if they can work for us? Sorry this just seems so fixable I'm honestly surprised that with our kickin dev community nobody's worked on it.
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Accidentally hit thanks
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I had the same bug when I got my phone. I switched to the epic 4g touch battery and haven't had that issue since. "knock on wood"

Purponic said:
I had the same bug when I got my phone. I switched to the epic 4g touch battery and haven't had that issue since. "knock on wood"
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Funnily enough that you mention this, I'm not sure that I've ever had a battery misread on my extended batteries. Not %100, as I don't use them as often, but it's a thought.

RandomKing said:
Funnily enough that you mention this, I'm not sure that I've ever had a battery misread on my extended batteries. Not %100, as I don't use them as often, but it's a thought.
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I need to convince sprint to give me one. Last time they were not being cooperative. I shall look into it. Thanks for the responses guys.

I have had issues with my old extended battery on multiple roms not reading correctly. no matter what i did on both foryo and gb so far have had good luck with the 1800. i have also had issues of rebooting on with my extended.

About to return mine

Need to know if anyone else is having this issue and if it's hardware related or just at&t tower related.
I'm regularly getting a censor type logo where my signal bars would normally be (it's a circle with a line through it) basically saying I have no network connection, similar to if you were to take out your sim card. This doesn't seem to be related to signal because it will happen out of the blue and I'll have 4 bars prior. It only lasts for 5-20 seconds, then kicks back in. I haven't had any data drops, but when this happens, I can't call, text, do anything.
Has anyone else experience this? Need some input because I have two days left in my return window and was going to swap it out for a new unit if this sounds like a hardware defect.
Had the phone on for 2.5 hours and was without mobile network for 7% of that time according to cell standby stats. Doesn't seem normal.
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Yea sounds like hardware return for a new one buddy
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Could be your sim card, do you have other at&t phones on your account, if you do are they having issues too?

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Could be your sim card, do you have other at&t phones on your account, if you do are they having issues too?
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Only other phone we got is my mom's basic flip phone. I still have two days to swap it out and had at&t tech make note of what's going on on my account, just wondering if this was a issue on their part of my phone's.
I'm in central NJ and in nyc for school (NJ right now) so i'm in a strong service area, but the phones just dropping the network randomly. I can be on xda browsing one second and have that symbol up the next.

Yea, i'd say try swapping it out first, that being probably the easier option at the moment. Then again, if they already have a note of it, they'd know it's a recurring issue should it happen again shortly thereafter.... so i don't think that would be a problem then, either Either way, better to be safe than sorry.

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Only other phone we got is my mom's basic flip phone. I still have two days to swap it out and had at&t tech make note of what's going on on my account, just wondering if this was a issue on their part of my phone's.
I'm in central NJ and in nyc for school (NJ right now) so i'm in a strong service area, but the phones just dropping the network randomly. I can be on xda browsing one second and have that symbol up the next.
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I got mine yesterday and i had a iPhone previously. wasn't picking up any internet service until i went to at&t and had them switch my sim card out for a new one so yeah... just a thought.

elementaldragon said:
Yea, i'd say try swapping it out first, that being probably the easier option at the moment. Then again, if they already have a note of it, they'd know it's a recurring issue should it happen again shortly thereafter.... so i don't think that would be a problem then, either Either way, better to be safe than sorry.
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I already flashed back to stock and got everything on dropbox, so if I can I'm gonna go the new phone route. I'd rather know it's something with the towers around here then find out it's my s3 after my return period is up, ya know.
But have you guys ever had this issue like at all? Cause this happens quite often on my phone, once every ten minutes at least, usually more.

iastonish said:
I already flashed back to stock and got everything on dropbox, so if I can I'm gonna go the new phone route. I'd rather know it's something with the towers around here then find out it's my s3 after my return period is up, ya know.
But have you guys ever had this issue like at all? Cause this happens quite often on my phone, once every ten minutes at least, usually more.
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It's not your phone.
It's happened to both of my devices (one replacement due to crashing) while I'm at my cottage. (No service zone)
It's the towers.

Noxey said:
It's not your phone.
It's happened to both of my devices (one replacement due to crashing) while I'm at my cottage. (No service zone)
It's the towers.
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But I'm in a strong service zone, HSPA+ where I'm at, and 4GLTE a few towns over. Dropping service while at your cottage in a no service zone is a bit different I'd think.

It's worth getting a replacement just in case.

I got the same issue. Happens to both my one x and s3. Lte just started rolling out here and I'm blaming it on that. I rarely get 2g signal anymore
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s1mpd1ddy said:
I got the same issue. Happens to both my one x and s3. Lte just started rolling out here and I'm blaming it on that. I rarely get 2g signal anymore
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No LTE rolling out here. Anyway, I'm going to pick one up tomorrow and I'll let you guys know if it's problem solved or not. If not, we'll continue to trouble shoot.
Big thanks to everyone for the replies and input.

Probably the towers. This was a issue with galaxy s2 also on sprint. Had to do with tower switching
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iastonish said:
No LTE rolling out here. Anyway, I'm going to pick one up tomorrow and I'll let you guys know if it's problem solved or not. If not, we'll continue to trouble shoot.
Big thanks to everyone for the replies and input.
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Yeah that would be the best thing to do, and you get a new device lol.
I would request a new sim card just to get a new fresh start... just another thought. lol.

Mine is doing the same thing in good signal area after the signal comes back it goes down to 2g, I'm just returning the phone.
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I experienced that issue when I was using Juice defender. For some reason my phone went to airplane mode quite few times. If it would have happened frequently, then I would have thought that I somehow messed the settings for juice defender. It started happening abruptly. After uninstalling that app, I haven't seen that occurring again on my phone. At least for me it was the app rather than the phone that was causing my phone to go to airplane mode.

krips2003 said:
I experienced that issue when I was using Juice defender. For some reason my phone went to airplane mode quite few times. If it would have happened frequently, then I would have thought that I somehow messed the settings for juice defender. It started happening abruptly. After uninstalling that app, I haven't seen that occurring again on my phone. At least for me it was the app rather than the phone that was causing my phone to go to airplane mode.
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Running completely stock other than Tapatalk right now and still having the issue. Waiting for my gf now then off to find an att with the white gs3 in stock
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Got a new one. Issue hasn't happened anywhere, but at my house lol but its whatever I'm on wifi when im home anyway. Guess its a tower issue, but still happy to know it wasnt my phone, so if anyone else is having this issue, hope this thread points you in the right direction a bit.
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google+ KILLING ME!

so i just got the s3 yesterday, love the phone. my 1st overnight experience was good until i woke up to almost hafl battery life and i went into my battery stats and saw this...
how can i fix this? why is google+ keeping my phone awake and killing my battery
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It is most likely uploading all the photo's and videos you have on your phone.
Check data usage of apps through Settings - More to verify.

Bielinsk said:
It is most likely uploading all the photo's and videos you have on your phone.
Check data usage of apps through Settings - More to verify.
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Yup yup...OP, if you have Instant Upload turned on, more than likely your phone was uploading all your pictures and videos to G+ last night. If you didn't have it connected to wifi, it would eat your phone in no time.

i wasnt even signed into google+. i forced quit google+ before and now its going down in %

Warrior 3000 said:
i wasnt even signed into google+. i forced quit google+ before and now its going down in %
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Then I have no idea.
Uninstall it and reboot.
I have had no issues with G+ on any of my devices.

"You're tearing me APART Google +!"
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You tell it to only instant upload with Wi-Fi?
You don't have to be signed in for it to sync
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I wonder which Samsung engineer came up with the idea of adding a app that literarily sucks the power out of the phone, and impossible to kill without any sw mods.
From 100% to 70 in 1,5 hr, with NO virtual use, and im not even signed in to any Google apps at all, disconnected pos features.
And the best part, it takes 8 hrs to fully recharge :good:
How come Apple manage to triple the battery time with NO power saving features, a bunch of active push apps, average use like calling, sms, social apps etc, with almost half the battery capacity on their Iphone? Beats me!
Yesterday i had a fully charged S3 9 in the morning, 3 in the afternoon, its was 15% left, and i hadnt even touched it

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I wonder which Samsung engineer came up with the idea of adding a app that literarily sucks the power out of the phone, and impossible to kill without any sw mods.
From 100% to 70 in 1,5 hr, with NO virtual use, and im not even signed in to any Google apps at all, disconnected pos features.
And the best part, it takes 8 hrs to fully recharge :good:
How come Apple manage to triple the battery time with NO power saving features, a bunch of active push apps, average use like calling, sms, social apps etc, with almost half the battery capacity on their Iphone? Beats me!
Yesterday i had a fully charged S3 9 in the morning, 3 in the afternoon, its was 15% left, and i hadnt even touched it
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And which magical app are you referring to that those blasted Samsung engineers have foisted upon ye?
Apple, tripled battery life? Where?

Well, arent we talking about Google+ in this thread?

You need to update the Google plus app, that might help a bit. I have the app and actually use it, and I do not have a drain like that. You may have some other apps helping to the drain.
Also check if you ever clicked the app. If you did be sure you turned off instant upload.
And last, it seems like where you live you have poor service, like me. That is a big cause of battery drain. It is always searching for signal and going in and out of roaming takes battery.
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LordLugard said:
And which magical app are you referring to that those blasted Samsung engineers have foisted upon ye?
Apple, tripled battery life? Where?
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Ah, and yea, i also got a iphone 5 which also was 100% charged at the same time, and after calling, sms, facebooking and stuff, it still hasnt went down longer than to 93%, impressing ey?
Numbers should speak for itself, and discussions not needed.. just saying
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You need to update the Google plus app, that might help a bit. I have the app and actually use it, and I do not have a drain like that. You may have some other apps helping to the drain.
Also check if you ever clicked the app. If you did be sure you turned off instant upload.
And last, it seems like where you live you have poor service, like me. That is a big cause of battery drain. It is always searching for signal and going in and out of roaming takes battery.
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Well, the phone is 4 days old, and yes it got ALL the latest updates, but i dont want to use G+, i dont like it, and most of all, i dont need it, so why must i have it?
Poor service? No, its just laying around here at home at 100% wifi, like my Iphone, which means its used in the same environment.
But this doesnt seem to be any paricular news for this phone, but i was hoping there was a solution for it. maybe Samsung discovered the issue and fixed it on the S4, excited to see if its any better...
4-6 hrs active use on one charge simply isnt good enough, especially when it takes twice the time to recharge it they have to do better than that...

Sorry, I was responding to the OP lol. I thought this was a new topic.
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Sorry, I was responding to the OP lol. I thought this was a new topic.
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appfactory said:
Ah, and yea, i also got a iphone 5 which also was 100% charged at the same time, and after calling, sms, facebooking and stuff, it still hasnt went down longer than to 93%, impressing ey?
Numbers should speak for itself, and discussions not needed.. just saying
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Well, the phone is 4 days old, and yes it got ALL the latest updates, but i dont want to use G+, i dont like it, and most of all, i dont need it, so why must i have it?
Poor service? No, its just laying around here at home at 100% wifi, like my Iphone, which means its used in the same environment.
But this doesnt seem to be any paricular news for this phone, but i was hoping there was a solution for it. maybe Samsung discovered the issue and fixed it on the S4, excited to see if its any better...
4-6 hrs active use on one charge simply isnt good enough, especially when it takes twice the time to recharge it they have to do better than that...
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Correct me if I'm wrong, its been a long time since I've been on stock, but can't you just disable g+ in system apps?
4-6 hours = something other than g+ being an issue.
As for the iPhone, it sounds like a much better fit for you.

If you have it setup to poll your location whenever it wants, turn that off. It is a battery hog.
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[HELP] Random shutdowns and reboots

Hi,
I experience a lot of random shutdowns and reboots on my d855. It often happens when I send a SMS. After I klick the send button, a half second later the phones screen went black and I must take out the battery and wait a bit to reboot it again. But sometimes when I scroll through the interface or play a game or just use my phone the screen freezes and after a couple of seconds the hole phone reboots or turn off as mentioned above.
I have this on all of my roms I tested. Whith and without a custom kernel... Stock, AOSP or CM...
It's really annoying and I don't know what to do against it.
I hope anyone can help me.
Thanks in advance

Have you tried both Kitkat and Lollipop?
Is your phone warm when it does this?

TonzaTheChosenOne said:
Have you tried both Kitkat and Lollipop?
Is your phone warm when it does this?
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I tried only Lollipop, it gets hot when it reboots but it isn't hot in the moment it freezes.
Can it be my battery? I have the feeling that when I use my phone plugged in to the charger, that the freezes and reboots are not so often.

lutzbat said:
I tried only Lollipop, it gets hot when it reboots but it isn't hot in the moment it freezes.
Can it be my battery? I have the feeling that when I use my phone plugged in to the charger, that the freezes and reboots are not so often.
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There was a guy with similar problems, and he was sure it was his battery. Does your battery act up? for example, when it it reboots/freezes, are battery percentages still around the same? Does your phone complain about your battery? can it be charged to 100%?

TonzaTheChosenOne said:
There was a guy with similar problems, and he was sure it was his battery. Does your battery act up? for example, when it it reboots/freezes, are battery percentages still around the same? Does your phone complain about your battery? can it be charged to 100%?
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Yes it can be charged to 100%. The phone doesn't complain about it but after I reboot the percentage of the battery is around 3-5% less than before.

lutzbat said:
Yes it can be charged to 100%. The phone doesn't complain about it but after I reboot the percentage of the battery is around 3-5% less than before.
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Seems normal. have you tried any mods etc. before this started to happen?
I would try to do Clean install of original lollipop ROM, with original kernel, wiped. No roots or any custom stuff.

TonzaTheChosenOne said:
Seems normal. have you tried any mods etc. before this started to happen?
I would try to do Clean install of original lollipop ROM, with original kernel, wiped. No roots or any custom stuff.
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I did a clean install of the stock lg Rom with the flashing tool. But it didn't helped.
I had installed the ctt mod but it didn't start especially after that.
My charging cable had a loose connection, can this be that the battery didn't charge really to 100%. I don't know how the battery is built

TonzaTheChosenOne said:
Seems normal. have you tried any mods etc. before this started to happen?
I would try to do Clean install of original lollipop ROM, with original kernel, wiped. No roots or any custom stuff.
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Today the battery jumped after a reboot from 37 down to 17, and after an other reboot up to 54??!!

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Same problem here. Seems like there won't be any solution for this.

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New battery may fix this. This is exactly, what was going on with a person here earlier.

kcbm225 said:
Same problem here. Seems like there won't be any solution for this.
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That's pissing me off!!
Are the problems for you since you bought this phone or did it began after a while?

lutzbat said:
That's pissing me off!!
Are the problems for you since you bought this phone or did it began after a while?
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After 4-5 months after buying the phone, and it got worse after the firmware update
I also created a topic that haven't been answered yet..
I have ordered a new battery online and will receive it in a couple of days, like somebody said above. I'll let you know

kcbm225 said:
After 4-5 months after buying the phone, and it got worse after the firmware update
I also created a topic that haven't been answered yet..
I have ordered a new battery online and will receive it in a couple of days, like somebody said above. I'll let you know
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Me too....
Thanks mate! :cheers:

Okay so today I received the new battery and magic, my phone could finally start without being plugged! So happy!!
The battery is draining really fast though, will try a full charge once it reaches 0.
I guess the problem was from there, but I still wonder what could have screwed up the old battery, especially after upgrading to lolipop..

kcbm225 said:
Okay so today I received the new battery and magic, my phone could finally start without being plugged! So happy!!
The battery is draining really fast though, will try a full charge once it reaches 0.
I guess the problem was from there, but I still wonder what could have screwed up the old battery, especially after upgrading to lolipop..
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Thanks for charing.
I think i will do the same now

kcbm225 said:
Okay so today I received the new battery and magic, my phone could finally start without being plugged! So happy!!
The battery is draining really fast though, will try a full charge once it reaches 0.
I guess the problem was from there, but I still wonder what could have screwed up the old battery, especially after upgrading to lolipop..
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I don't mean to hijack this thread but i have the same problem with my g3.
Lg g3 d855 android v 4.4.2
Rooted, bumped with twrp
Everything Stock
Xposed framework installed and a few modules enabled
So this random reboots started about two weeks ago out of nowhere.. I did no "change" to my phone. Rooting n everything else was done about 4 months ago and my phone was working fine until recently.
Constant reboots...and they won't stop unless i plug in my charger. Rwboots would happen randomly and when i try to do a manual reboot, the same thing happens.. So i tried safe mode but it would reboot again unless i plug it in. Disabled xposed, unrooted and still the same.. I noticed the battery voltage would bump to 4.3V(in the app CPU-Z) and Battery would become extremely hot during reboots ,about 43°C.. So i suspect it is an issue with battery.
Did the new battery fix it for you?

Sherl Holmes said:
I don't mean to hijack this thread but i have the same problem with my g3.
Lg g3 d855 android v 4.4.2
Rooted, bumped with twrp
Everything Stock
Xposed framework installed and a few modules enabled
So this random reboots started about two weeks ago out of nowhere.. I did no "change" to my phone. Rooting n everything else was done about 4 months ago and my phone was working fine until recently.
Constant reboots...and they won't stop unless i plug in my charger. Rwboots would happen randomly and when i try to do a manual reboot, the same thing happens.. So i tried safe mode but it would reboot again unless i plug it in. Disabled xposed, unrooted and still the same.. I noticed the battery voltage would bump to 4.3V(in the app CPU-Z) and Battery would become extremely hot during reboots ,about 43°C.. So i suspect it is an issue with battery.
Did the new battery fix it for you?
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I bought a new battery bit I still have the same problems... I don't know what to do now...