Before you say I can't, I'm thinking hey, why not up the receiver gains and transmitting power or manually select the lower frequency bands in my phone? Like make an app to switch 4/3/2/1g, select which bands allowed, select transmit power, and receiver sensitivity, all in one app?
I think this is a great idea for traveling into rural canada! What do you think
Without restarting btw.
Welcome to XDA!
I, too, often suffer from weak signals in far distant rural places.
But, the thing is, little bars are good, but what you really need is good signal to noise ratio.
There are many apps out there that will let you look at what band, frequency, signal strength and signal to noise ratio.
This is all a bit cooperative too, there's no reason anybody should be transmitting at more power than necessary.
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You want a better signal? Move around a bit while checking your signal.
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I've been testing my Speeds with the Speedtest.net App found in Android Market.. I've noticed lately my Ping has been between 97-1500ms.. It's never been like that. I'm not sure if I should be worried? I live near Boston so I do use the Boston server to ping. Another thing is if i go to the speedtest.net website on my phone and do the speedtest there it says I'm in Wilson, NC? not sure about this but I've attached a photo of the proof.. I've done a lot of tests.. Odd thing is my speed is great. On some of the tests It does show that I'm getting 8-10Mbps. (The list is so long you cant see it)
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It does the same thing with me, I have traced it to my APN settings, depending which one I choose I will either get high ping and great speeds or low ping and decent speeds.
Yeah I don't get it. At all.
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i just flash the new UGLA4 radio and im not sure about the results. i have some screenshots to help explain my situation. my house is in a low reception area so all the yellow in the Network Signal is very normal.
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as you can see in the second pic my time without singal is very high, but according to the first pic i only have 1 tiny red spot in the Mobile network signal indicating no signal. So which one do i believe? is the time without signal count weak signal in the 56%? Everytime i check phone status it shows that im connect to my carrier Fido. Battery usage is also very good, i lost about 3% last night and have 49mins of screen on time with this charge.
I have my signal in the status bar being reported by dBm and the lowest is 113 dBm, maybe when it hits this level the phone considers this in "Time without Singal"? But even at 113dBm is still shows that its connected to mobile network.
Hi!
I've had Zooper since my Galaxy S2. So it's been a while and I'm about up on my Nexus5 so the better half of four years has gone by.
Sad to say Zooper still cannot tell me what my cell signal strength is. The ASU is always 99 and dBm is always 85. It never change changes. It's odd to think I have app called Network Signal Pro that gets this information at the ready. I've attached a screenshot of a simple Zooper widget and a widget from the fore mentioned app.
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Hate to kick the dust up but it's not fair that the GSM network devices people have get this info and those on a CDMA network do not. I paid for my app way back when and it'd be nice to see this work. I really can't create anything that has a cell signal in it for myself or anybody since I can't tell if it works.
I hope somebody has some insight into this matter!
Thanks for lending me your ear!
Dave
Today I found out that the OP3 supports 256QAM although it is a CAT6 phone. This would mean it doesn‘t match the LTE Standards in any way. This made me thinking if the modem in reality is no CAT6 modem and may be able to support 3CA. Maybe it is just limited by software. So does anybody know something about this?
Here is a Screenshot from Network Signal Guru with 256QAM:
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felixkruemel said:
Today I found out that the OP3 supports 256QAM although it is a CAT6 phone. This would mean it doesn‘t match the LTE Standards in any way. This made me thinking if the modem in reality is no CAT6 modem and may be able to support 3CA. Maybe it is just limited by software. So does anybody know something about this?
Here is a Screenshot from Network Signal Guru with 256QAM:
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I‘m currently roaming, Just had a (really really poor) 3CA Signal on the Orange FR Network. That should mean it is possible even if I haven‘t seen it anywhere else.
For past few days I am getting sudden signal drops on my pixel 2 xl on LTE.
I found it out when I restarted my pixel, at first the signal strength will be around -85dBm to -95dBm and I'll get good speed but then suddenly after some random time it drops to -100, -105 and the speed degrades drastically. The signal strength never recovers back to -85dBm to -95dBm.
The time to signal drop is completely random, sometimes its 2-3 mins some times it 20-30 seconds. Does anyone have idea around this ? Is this because my phone is switching towers or is it because of software issue ?
Can anyone help me out to debug this ? any tools, any app, any advice, any posts will be really helpful.
I tried to check network info by *#*#4636*#*. I didn't find any differences adding the screenshots here as well.
Good signal
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Poor signal