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It seems whenever I don't have a 4g data connection, I'm not getting any data connection. Anyone else have this problem? When I'm in builldings I never get a data connection. Even when I'm outside I rarely get data connection unless it's a 4g spot. I know someone with a GN and side by side, he gets a connection at work while I have gray bars. Is this prevelant among most of you all? I'm on Verizon if that makes a difference.
Yes, I have this issue as well when I am at work but only when I have wifi turned on. With wifi on I get no 4g connection inside the building and the phone won't drop down to 3g, just gives me gray bars and no data. Manually switching from LTE/CDMA to CDMA restores my 3g data connection. Turning wifi off enables the LTE data connection. I assume it's trying to use the building's wifi network that I am not authenticated to for some reason. It's quite annoying and seems to be draining my battery.
My 4g reception sucks. I am rather disappointed. I canceled my ATT account and paid the ETF to switch to verizon for the GN. I am in plano tx which is in the Verizon LTE area and i dont get any signal except in a few spots on the highway. I work in Richardson, which is also in the LTE area, and i dont even have 3g in the building. I dont have any signal when i go deeper into the building away from the windows. I am running stock 4.0.2. I hope this gets better. I am already regretting dropping ATT.
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My 4g reception sucks. I am rather disappointed. I canceled my ATT account and paid the ETF to switch to verizon for the GN. I am in plano tx which is in the Verizon LTE area and i dont get any signal except in a few spots on the highway. I work in Richardson, which is also in the LTE area, and i dont even have 3g in the building. I dont have any signal when i go deeper into the building away from the windows. I am running stock 4.0.2. I hope this gets better. I am already regretting dropping ATT.
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Strange. I have excellent 3G and 4G signal in buildings, coming from Sprint I had non-existent data everywhere, especially indoors.
Just as an fyi. I went to Verizon to try to get a new phone. They told me my sim card was bad. I got the phone on the first day and they said they had issues with the first sim cards with the nexus. My wifes has the same problem.
New sim card, NO MORE connection issues. Yeah! Anyone else who has this issue might try this. I am now getting 3g and even 4g connections inside now.
ill go to the verizon store after work and switch sims. Just got it on 1/1. Ill go to a different verizon store to make sure its not a bad batch lol.
Wasnt the SIM card. Still getting crappy signal strength. I am going today and replacing the phone. If that doesnt work, i am going back to ATT skyrocket...
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Strange. I have excellent 3G and 4G signal in buildings, coming from Sprint I had non-existent data everywhere, especially indoors.
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In my office I get very weak to no 4G signal, so that the phone is constantly switching from weak 4G down to 3G and causing connection disruptions. I usually just disable LTE and use CDMA only mode to fix this. I have heard that a LTE signal should penetrate inside of buildings better, but apparently my workplace is almost impenetrable. We have a Verizon 3G repeater in the office or I would get no usable signal at all.
Spencer, what kind of speeds are you getting with LTE in the Columbia area? It seems like I got better speeds when I had my Rezound than I'm getting with my Galaxy Nexus.
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My 4g reception sucks. I am rather disappointed. I canceled my ATT account and paid the ETF to switch to verizon for the GN. I am in plano tx which is in the Verizon LTE area and i dont get any signal except in a few spots on the highway. I work in Richardson, which is also in the LTE area, and i dont even have 3g in the building. I dont have any signal when i go deeper into the building away from the windows. I am running stock 4.0.2. I hope this gets better. I am already regretting dropping ATT.
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I've had the exact opposite experience in Dallas. I switched from AT&T a year ago. I couldn't even make calls in my house. (I live in Lakewood) I had to go upstairs or outside. As far as data goes even on just 3G the Verizon speeds are much faster. I've done quite a few AT&T vs Verizon 3G side by side tests and Verzion has won every time. 4G is just a bonus for me. When I get a 4G signal there is no comparison. My coworker and I did a speed test on Tuesday at DFW. His iPhone 4s on AT&T vs my Gnex. I was getting 10-15 mbits down and he was getting like 2-3
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I am having the same exact problem. I thought it was related to airplane mode, I have it turning on at midnight and off at 6am. In the morning, if there is no Wifi and the phone is in 3G, I can't get data. Restarting gets data back, but I'm looking for a more elegant solution than that.
I'm having HUGE data issues, see:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1421440
just a quick question. are you guys running custom ROMs/kernels? if so, please add that in your post.
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Hi there,
I have had my Sprint Galaxy S3 for quite a while. This pass month I see that in my area, i'm getting switched to 4g rather than 3g. I was thinking to myself, this is great, they are rolling out the 4gLTE soon and i'll finally get the speed that i'm paying for. After a couple days, i noticed that the 4g signal was getting cut off. Cut off as in i don't get any data signal at all. I would think that if i can't get 4g signal, the phone will switch over to 3g but that's not the case. My data signal is totally gone for about 5 to 10 minutes and comes back as 4g. This was getting very fustrating as i will be browsing the internet and then suddenly not get any data and would need to wait.
So i decided to call Customer Service. What the CS told me was that the S3 is not setup for 4g WiMax but setup for 4gLTE. But I told the CS that i'm getting 4g WiMax on my phone but it gets cut off for a long period of time. CS understands that we can get the signal but the phone doesn't react good with that signal, therefore, i'm getting cut off for period of times.
So the solution that the CS gave me to get constant data signal is to change my "Preferred network mode" from LTE / CDMA to CDMA only. I was taken back about this because I feel like i'm downgrading because of Sprints issues.
My question is, anyone else having this issue and can't find how the 4gLTE icon looks like for the Spring Galaxy S3, mine only says 4g, is that the LTE signal?
The s3 only supports lte, so yes the 4g icon is lte. No the s3 can't connect to wimax it can't even see wimax as an option since it doesn't have the hardware. It would be like trying to use your bluetooth headset to connect to your wifi Internet, just isn't gonna happen no matter how many different ways you try.
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Most likely they are working on the tower your connecting to. Anytime the do work upgrades your signal including data can go wacky untill the work is completed.
No Galaxy S3 on any carrier can get Wimax 4G. These phones can only get 4G LTE. And i believe T-Mobile gs3 can't get LTE not 100% sure but i believe so.
Turning your phone to CDMA only will lock your phone into 3G only.
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As Evil said, when you see the 4G icon its connected to 4G LTE. Its not like the iPhone that will say 4G LTE. Im having the same issue as you are. Its great that LTE is rolling out in my area, however they are still updating towers. So I don't have great LTE speeds yet. So I've turned off LTE on my phone until there update is complete.
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Hey everyone!
I have a stock M8 with T-Mobile and I live in LA. I'm new to T-Mobile so I wanted to ask if this is normal.
My phone will lose data connectivity but the 4G LTE sign will stay on. Spotify will stop playing, Speedtest won't work, but the phone keeps telling me I have 4G LTE.
This happens a lot especially when driving, but today it happened while I was in the drive-through of a fast food place. I had barely moved and yet data was working fine at first, then suddenly "poof" nothing works anymore cause no internet, but the phone insists I have 4G LTE.
Usually turning data off and then on fixes it but not always.
Could it be an issue of switching towers? But then wouldn't my signal drop completely? Why does only data stop?
Anyone else having this issue or do I have a lemon phone I should return?
if you are jumping from tower to tower it may not relay properly. Call tmo and tell them to do a signal refresh. call from a different phone.
Do you have power saving mode on? The reason I ask this is bc it will turn your data connection off when your screen locks.
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I feel your edge
Same here ,
Ever since I bought the m8 it happens to me time to time.
Ive tried dis n reconnect the mobile data or go on airplain mode, but sometimes reboot is quicker.
Hope HTC publish a bug fixed firmware soon
Its a provisioning issue on the towers people you need to call tmo...
This was happening all the time to me on my Note 3 which Is why I upgraded to the M8. Just got it last night and it's happened once. Also, the signal isn't as strong. My Note would hold a lte connection with barely 1 bar. The m8 not so much. Likes to switch between 2g, 4g and lte.
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drksilenc said:
if you are jumping from tower to tower it may not relay properly. Call tmo and tell them to do a signal refresh. call from a different phone.
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I took your advice and did it. Let's see what happens.
Thanks for the help!
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I took your advice and did it. Let's see what happens.
Thanks for the help!
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Did it work? I also just got T-Mobile and live in LA and it happens to me as well. I have a Nexus 5 though.
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Did it work? I also just got T-Mobile and live in LA and it happens to me as well. I have a Nexus 5 though.
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It was fine for a couple of days. Today however I had to wait in the car for 1.5 hours for something and was playing Spotify.
Didn't move for that entire period. For an hour it worked fine, then suddenly it did this again where it wasn't receiving data and yet the 4G LTE sign was on screen.
So I guess it didn't really help. I turned data off and on and it restored it, but still... that's not cool.
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It was fine for a couple of days. Today however I had to wait in the car for 1.5 hours for something and was playing Spotify.
Didn't move for that entire period. For an hour it worked fine, then suddenly it did this again where it wasn't receiving data and yet the 4G LTE sign was on screen.
So I guess it didn't really help. I turned data off and on and it restored it, but still... that's not cool.
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Yeah same here. It happens in my house when I'm using my phone in bed and just loses data but it still says LTE and have to either turn off and on data or reset my phone.
Also on my way to work today I was using Spotify the entire drive, which is about 45 minutes, and never lost data but on the way back it lost it about twice. It sucks and hopefully there's a fix of some sort.
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I think is not phone problem
tmobile signal issue
my z1 and htc m8 sometime both have this kind of issue
they both show I still have lte icon but just can't connect to network
and sometime you must wait like 1-2 mins to reconnect to network
I have had my M8 for a week and have not experienced any issue with data loss. I am in Miami, Fl. If anything I get way better LTE speeds than I have had with any of my last phones( S4, G2, Iphone 5S)
Same issue with my M8.
Full bars LTE signal and sometimes data just stops working. Need to reboot the phone to get it working again. Was thinking about exchanging the phone but it seems like a software glitch...
Dan37tz said:
Same issue with my M8.
Full bars LTE signal and sometimes data just stops working. Need to reboot the phone to get it working again. Was thinking about exchanging the phone but it seems like a software glitch...
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I don't have this issue but I do have terrible speeds in south Atlanta.
3-5 bars in my home, and download speeds are from 3-6 Mbps down and uplad from 2-3Mbps up even with LTE. I get much better performance on HSPA+
LTE pings are half that of HSPA though
Just to add on here, in my experience this has more to do with the area and likely the towers supporting that area then software or hardware. Another possibility is T Mobile's network in LA is not 100% compatible with HTC is new radio firmware yet. If that's the case some tweaking by t-mobile on the backend would fix this issue straight away.
The reason I say this is because in Las Vegas, Nevada I never have any problem with LTE losing connection, however, this last week I was in Long Beach, CA (LA County) and constantly had loss of data connection while the phone would still displaying a full 5 bar 4G LTE connection.
Reboot or switching to airplane mode would fix it, however, it got to be so bad and happened so regularly, I eventually stopped using LTE entirely while there. The HSPA+ "4G" connection there was still producing around 10 megabits per second download which was more than enough. So, while there I switched off LTE and had no more issues with data connection dropping.
Long story short clearly seems to be an issue with T Mobile Lte Towers in the greater Los Angeles area. Possibly its an issue in other areas as well.
Behold_this said:
Just to add on here, in my experience this has more to do with the area and likely the towers supporting that area then software or hardware. Another possibility is T Mobile's network in LA is not 100% compatible with HTC is new radio firmware yet. If that's the case some tweaking by t-mobile on the backend would fix this issue straight away.
The reason I say this is because in Las Vegas, Nevada I never have any problem with LTE losing connection, however, this last week I was in Long Beach, CA (LA County) and constantly had loss of data connection while the phone would still displaying a full 5 bar 4G LTE connection.
Reboot or switching to airplane mode would fix it, however, it got to be so bad and happened so regularly, I eventually stopped using LTE entirely while there. The HSPA+ "4G" connection there was still producing around 10 megabits per second download which was more than enough. So, while there I switched off LTE and had no more issues with data connection dropping.
Long story short clearly seems to be an issue with T Mobile Lte Towers in the greater Los Angeles area. Possibly its an issue in other areas as well.
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Happening here in South Houston too, but i am using a VZW M8 with Tmo.
I also have this issue, but I'm on AT&T and missing some bands that I need, so I was figuring it was that.
I had a galaxy s5 and had same issue.
So i know it's not the phone
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Has anyone found a solution to this problem yet? My HTC One M8 has been losing data connectivity ever since I purchased it last month. It will say I have 4G LTE but I will loose data connection regardless. It's a nuisance. I never had that problem with the M7. My camera on the M7 got a purple haze so T-Mobile replaced it with a refurbished M7. It was the worst thing I could've done. The refurbished M7 would freeze and reboot a lot, until it finally got stuck in a boot loop and I lost all my photos, videos, and files. Would not go into recovery. Then T-Mobile sent me a plastic Samsung S4 as a replacement for that because they were out of the M7. The new M8 has been working pretty well except for the annoying data connection loss everyday. I have to activate then deactivate airplane mode to obtain data connection again. Only other time I ever had this happen was with a certain nighyly rom I put on my HTC HD2, but that was rooted, this is a stock phone, I never expected to have a data connection problem with a stock rom.
I had this problem for ages with straight talk with my old phone just before I bought my M8. Exactly the same issue in that my data would seemingly just cut out randomly after a bit then come back later(switching off/on and/or in and out of airplane would restore it).
In my case, it turned out to be my data settings. I played around with different settings one night and found that different settings finally got rid of the problem for me. Your mileage may vary, but it's an easy enough thing to try.
Is anyone experiencing LTE problems? I have great Spark signal in my area, but this phone seems to go to 3g all the time. My other phones are always on LTE, so obviously coverage is not the issue here. I will unroot thru Odin and see if it's a root problem.
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Is anyone experiencing LTE problems? I have great Spark signal in my area, but this phone seems to go to 3g all the time. My other phones are always on LTE, so obviously coverage is not the issue here. I will unroot thru Odin and see if it's a root problem.
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Not a root problem. Weird part is it only seems to happen to me in areas where there is really strong 4g, like in my house. At work, I am on a weaker 4g signal all day long without issues.
Try updating your profile and prl. Also make sure you have CDMA/LTE selected under mobile network.
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Is anyone experiencing LTE problems? I have great Spark signal in my area, but this phone seems to go to 3g all the time. My other phones are always on LTE, so obviously coverage is not the issue here. I will unroot thru Odin and see if it's a root problem.
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I have the same problem. It keeps dropping my signal to 3g..even when it's on 3g sometimes it loses the 3g signal and reconnects to 3g.. the areas I go always have band 41 ...my previous phone was the nexus 5 and the signal was great...never drops connection like this...I thought it was only my phone as I haven't seen someone with the same problem in the forums. I'm in nyc area
Hopefully there is fix soon, it's very annoying to have this data issues.
Its not just your phone mine does the same thing at my work. I switch between multiple different band 25 26 and 41 towers as well as 3G towers. It occurs while the phone just sits on my desk. Theres a couple other threads discussing this. To my knowledge no one has any usable suggestions to help with this.
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dmisselh said:
Its not just your phone mine does the same thing at my work. I switch between multiple different band 25 26 and 41 towers as well as 3G towers. It occurs while the phone just sits on my desk. Theres a couple other threads discussing this. To my knowledge no one has any usable suggestions to help with this.
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My Note 4 does the exact same thing. I'm in a fully covered spark area, my old s4 always connected to lte with about 10 meg download. Awesome data offensive note 4 gets 3 to 5 meg download.. sometimes only getting 0.01 upload speed. That's the only thing that consistently bothers me about this phone. Oh yea it also constantly drops lte... to 3g. Feels like it's data is going through a dial up modem. I'm going to check the Sprint forums and see if I can find any good info.
Happened once in one place i was. Lower LTE signal and the phone kept dropping it and falling back to 3g, while my gf Lg G2 kept the LTE connection. I'm thinking they need to tweak the radio software in a future update.
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I've noticed that all the TriBand devices (Anything with Spark) switch to 3G for a bit then connect back to LTE/Spark. I haven't heard anything from work about this issue yet. I've also noticed its areas that have low Spark signal and high LTE signal.
My guess is it's a handoff problem. I will see all bars but LTE grayed out while riding the metro.
There is another thread touching on this too....I am having terrible LTE connection. My wife, who is an iPhone 6 user, gets 4 bars (or circles? lol) of LTE while I can sit next to her with 0-1 bars LTE or 3 bars 3G. I love this phone too much to complain alot about this but I am confident Sprint/Samsung will release an update to fix this.
The exact same problem occurred when the LG G2 got the spark update. It took 8 months for sprint to issues update that was specific to the LTE problem. I had to factory wipe before and after the update to get it to stick. The only difference is before the G2 was updated a toggle to airplane mode would bring the LTE back. That trick does not work on this phone. I will also add I drive alot at my job 6 hours plus a day. I go to the same spots to do paperwork in my truck. My Note 4 will not stay on LTE/Spark in locations where my G2 had a constant 10-15mbps connection.
Has anyone else been having a problem with their newly purchased Sprint S6 where the signal shows as 1 bar LTE on the s6 while other phones activated on sprint show better LTE signal at the same location? Even though the s6 and other phone's downloads speeds are the same, it always shows as 1, max 2 bars lte on the S6, although when placing a call the LTE indicator shows more bars for some reason. My family has two new S6's on our plan, and their both experiencing this issue. That and a few calls that didn't go through are making my dad freak out and wanna go back to his GS4.
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Has anyone else been having a problem with their newly purchased Sprint S6 where the signal shows as 1 bar LTE on the s6 while other phones activated on sprint show better LTE signal at the same location? Even though the s6 and other phone's downloads speeds are the same, it always shows as 1, max 2 bars lte on the S6, although when placing a call the LTE indicator shows more bars for some reason. My family has two new S6's on our plan, and their both experiencing this issue. That and a few calls that didn't go through are making my dad freak out and wanna go back to his GS4.
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Bars don't matter, what matters is Settings-->About Device-->Status--->Signal Strength.
I know, but I think there may be an error with the LTE indicator in the notification bar, and my dad says its driving him crazy.
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I know, but I think there may be an error with the LTE indicator in the notification bar, and my dad says its driving him crazy.
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Mine is the same.
i have the same problem. i updated my prl and profile to see if it would help and it didn't. then contacted sprint and they did a manual provision refresh. that seemed to solve the problem for now.
Mine is at one damn bar of LTE everywhere... doesnt seem to affect my speed of data usage... its fast... but it does have to search for that signal allot...
OK I think I see what ya'll are saying now. Just curious, what's your software version, OCF?? Also, anyone got a good fix?
Same here, on OCF
I noticed that as soon as the call connects, the bars shoot up.
I also have this issue on OCF. Question, has anyone rooted OCF yet? If so, which method did you use?
I am in exactly the same boat. I just changed from the S4, and at work we tested our phones side by side an S4, S5, and S6 and mine was the worst. I had to turn my LTE totally off in order to do anything. Please tell me this is something that Samsung can fix because I love this phone and don't know what to do.
Ya know,, 2 days ago I did changed my mobile network settings from Automatic to lte/CDMA. ALSO DID run an PRL update a d such but my signal had great actually, and my battery actually has improved alot since the change. Very well could be an Radio issue. That's what I'm guessing it is
Is it me or does this phone have a issue with making calls example tons of dropped calls, or do I need to get another phone
Guys, Samsung knows about this.... Supposedly will be rolling out an OTA soon to fix it,
Lets hope so. I'm convinced all of this poor battery life is from the modem / signal.
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Guys, Samsung knows about this.... Supposedly will be rolling out an OTA soon to fix it,
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I was messing around if you just select CDMA you will not drop calls until a fix if you guys want to do that
The signal display mainly looks bad because it's a Tri Band phone. On your s4 it would display the voice strength even though you were connected to LTE. On the tri band phones it only connects to LTE, and the switches to voice when making or receiving calls that's why you see the signal jump up when making a call. LTE does not travel/penetrate as well as voice and CDMA, but good news is that it does not have too to get good speeds.
Check out an app called Signal Check. It's cool to actually see your real signal and it just some bars. It will also tell you what band of LTE you are on.
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The signal display mainly looks bad because it's a Tri Band phone. On your s4 it would display the voice strength even though you were connected to LTE. On the tri band phones it only connects to LTE, and the switches to voice when making or receiving calls that's why you see the signal jump up when making a call. LTE does not travel/penetrate as well as voice and CDMA, but good news is that it does not have too to get good speeds.
Check out an app called Signal Check. It's cool to actually see your real signal and it just some bars. It will also tell you what band of LTE you are on.
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I understand that but doesn't help the people that are getting tons of dropped calls like myself
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Guys, Samsung knows about this.... Supposedly will be rolling out an OTA soon to fix it,
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Any info on a update I can't take all the dropped calls driving me crazy now
Even on OC9, we were experiencing the dropped calls. Finally, updated to OCF today, to see if it helped, but actually feel it may have gotten worse, seem to be experiencing more dropped calls.