I use an Iphone 5S for work, and have a Samsung S4 for personal use, I overwhelmingly prefer the S4, but . . .
I did an experiment today, phones sitting side by side, both on LTE...
Iphone 5S - 24.66d/14.44u, ping 18ms
Galaxy S4 - 6.4d/1.12u, ping 119ms
What is going on here? Is our modem that bad? Anyone have any tips to improve speed?
There is no real way to improve speeds. There are some "tweaks" that exisit somewhere for 3G idk about 4G. It could just be that at that certain point when you ran the speed test the IPhone had better signal than the GS4.
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They were sitting on my desk and I ran them both at the same time and to the same server. Both were showing two bars at the time.
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Did you look in the speed test app that you were using on each phone to make sure that they had connected to the same server?
You can't base anything off of a single side by side speed test. You should do the test several (at least 10) times in different locations and at different times of day. Record the results and take an average.
At the very least twice when you are doing so to check for discrepancies.
Anyway, I have never had an issue with the LTE speed on GS4. Just ran a quick test and got 21 down, and 6 up. The LTE reception is kind of bad around here too.
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I am getting relatively low and inconsistent speeds on my Nexus 7 wifi connection. Anyone know what might be going on.
I have a Galaxy Nexus and Nexus 7 side by side, same network, same profile, same connection data.
If I run speedtest.net on the Galaxy Nexus I am getting good speeds. 20000kbps down 20000kbps down
On the Nexus 7 I frequently get as low as 1000kpbs up, and at best I get 8000
I am rooted, and using the WiFi fix package that was required for my office (on both devices)
Any thoughts ?
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I am getting relatively low and inconsistent speeds on my Nexus 7 wifi connection. Anyone know what might be going on.
I have a Galaxy Nexus and Nexus 7 side by side, same network, same profile, same connection data.
If I run speedtest.net on the Galaxy Nexus I am getting good speeds. 20000kbps down 20000kbps down
On the Nexus 7 I frequently get as low as 1000kpbs up, and at best I get 8000
I am rooted, and using the WiFi fix package that was required for my office (on both devices)
Any thoughts ?
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WiFi fix package? I'm not sure what that is exactly, but perhaps it is causing some issue on the N7, whereas it isn't causing an issue on the GN, but I have no idea.
It's this
http://code.google.com/p/android/is...s Owner Summary Stars&groupby=&sort=&id=34212
comment #10.
WiFi doesn't work at all without it.
I just ran a speed test at 50 feet plus a wall. I got 18Mbps on a 20Mbps internet service. It bests just about all my devices for range as well.
Stock, rooted.
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mike infinity said:
I just ran a speed test at 50 feet plus a wall. I got 18Mbps on a 20Mbps internet service. It bests just about all my devices for range as well.
Stock, rooted.
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Not much help
How do I explain this?
I did an experiment with 3 phones (sony ericsson live with walkman, galaxy nexus, huawei vodafone), all located in the same space (side by side), all with the all inclusive option wind and navigation 3g.
I launched at the same time the application speedtest on all phones and I had the results veramenti distant from each other. I repeated the experiment 3-4 times.
results:
huawei: just over 1 meg
galaxy nexus: a little over 2 mega
sony: over 5!
The modems I would think is the explaination
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BaseBand I would say
and ofc phone signal reception...
I even had an xperia mini pro sk17i and my girlfriend had the same phone, both on 3 with super internet and my phone didn't receive signal at all when I was not under an aerial... (euphemism)
Sadly we had the same baseband too, so it was an hardware problem i guess..
Yeah i also think it is the hardware. If you remember iphone 4, that had a bad signal if hold it in the wrong hand and plus companies always try to save money through using cheapest material, i wouldnt wonder ...
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I checked signal strength in store. I compared my sg4 to note3 and lg g2. The note 3 was a stable 108db every now and then it fell to 106db. My sg4 106db to 105db. The lg g2 did 101db.
I want the note 3 but I cant purchase until after an update proves it software related not hardware related
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Well here's my story. Have two note 3 units. One is on. Att the other on t mobile. Both are on att service plans.
One phone shows -111 db other shows -106 db side by side consistently. My t mobile on att shows less signal compared to wife's att note 3. Is mine faulty? If don't know , just observation.
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maybe its a frequency thing if not then maybe one is fault or that side by side the few inches make a big difference
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Well here's my story. Have two note 3 units. One is on. Att the other on t mobile. Both are on att service plans.
One phone shows -111 db other shows -106 db side by side consistently. My t mobile on att shows less signal compared to wife's att note 3. Is mine faulty? If don't know , just observation.
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Their both fine. User error. Conclusion. Att shows more signal on their displays.
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Also bear in mind the lower the minus Db the better signal.
"Also bear in mind the lower the minus Db the better signal."
Another way of wording that is the closer to ZERO the better the signal.
Anyways I've found the Note 3 to be pretty bad... Seems like this phone has a pretty weak antenna in it...
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"Also bear in mind the lower the minus Db the better signal."
Another way of wording that is the closer to ZERO the better the signal.
Anyways I've found the Note 3 to be pretty bad... Seems like this phone has a pretty weak antenna in it...
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Perhaps as bad as the S4? Well for me, yes. Roll on 5.7 inch iPhone LOLzzz. Once I went droid I cannot go back!
Just wanted to compare experiences here.
Before I switched to Note 3 I was mostly using my S2, and seldomly Note 1
(The reason I rarely used Note 1 was due its horrible battery life)
Do Note (no pun intended ) I'm comparing reception for AWS band (1700/2100)
So S2 was my main phone until I got the Note 3, the S2 can get great signals even at bad reception areas like toilet / stairwells / elevators inside a building without windows nearby.
However with Note3, I'm sitting right next to a Window and it keeps on losing reception.
Perhaps it has something to do with its power saving feature in the kernel (I'm not talking about the "Power Saving Feature" in Settings)
The reason I believe this might be the case, is simply due the fact that If I initiate a data session then it'll suddenly get signal again, and my SMS / missed calls will come through just fine, but if I let it idle, then it loses network connection and I'll miss reception.
I'm on the Stock ROM, only rooted, no other changes have been made.
Share your experience.
i think i have to agree with you.....my signal is weaker on the note 3 than it was on the note 1 (everything was changed on this one). i'm looking to change the modem as it is still the one that came with it and no updates to the firmware as yet on vodafone uk
I also jumped from s2 to note 3 and I agree, what I have seen also and share it here is that mj2 modem is better in Wifi less power consuming but mj1 is better in carrier signal but more power consuming so I rolled back to mj1.
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Significantly lower power combined with immature software. I'd alai be willing to bet the radios weren't the greateston the s2 right when it came out.
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Significantly lower power combined with immature software. I'd alai be willing to bet the radios weren't the greateston the s2 right when it came out.
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When the s2 came out. .. We're taking a few years ago now and things have moved on and would expect it to better now for sure. ...
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This is also the first snapdragon 800 device I believe. If you'd rather not wait for them to get the power correct, you can tune it yourself...
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Let's not forget about the snapdragon variant of the s3.
Idle power had an extra 0 appended to it and ended up with an idle power draw of 30ma instead of 3ma.
+1 agreed, S2 still had unbeatable radio/modem. On my S3 had installed custom Kernel to matched with S2.
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I live out in the sticks, I rely on wifi calling. I am hoping there is some improvement with the modem. Both my GS6 and Note4 cannot make a reliable call here without WIFI.
Curious to know about this as well..
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I have better service so far with the S7E on T-Mobile than my S6E. That's for sure. Noticed last night
I'll be back in my office with less-than-stellar coverage on Friday. My Note 5 used to struggle for LTE until recent radio updates allowed it to pull 3-4 bars fairly easily (not in an active Band 12 area for this office). Hoping the S7 Edge can do this too.
Has anyone figured out how to tell the phone to prefer Band 12 over others? I used the same Samsung Service Mode from the Note 5, but the options are laid out completely differently.
My Note 5 had much better reception inside the building that I work. Hopefully an update will make it better.
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My Note 5 & S7E has about the same signal strength. But, from speed wise, Note 5 is pulling about 10Mbps faster than S7E (35 vs 25). Also, another strange thing is that Note 5 is LTE towers while S7E is using GSM towers. I couldn't find any switch to fix that...
Side by side with my s6 I'm getting an extra bar on the s7
For some reason the signal is been pretty spotty compare to my Note 5. Hopefully, Tmobile has an update in the works.
Better signal but more important then that is faster connect. A lot of times on my s6 there would be long pauses before ringing. The s7e is much faster.
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For some reason the signal is been pretty spotty compare to my Note 5. Hopefully, Tmobile has an update in the works.
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I've noticed that my LTE signal in the office is slightly weaker than my Note 5, but it still works.
Noticed my LTE signal is weaker in the office as well (Coming from note 5). Hope a update fixes the issue.