I have discovered that if I'm in a location with mediocre signal (but WITH reception), that if I hold the phone, the signal (bars) will often drop to 0, and carrying out a phone conversation is near impossible. But if I put the phone down (put it on speaker), the bars/reception come back and I can carry out the conversation.
The effect is pretty bad, sometimes going from 3 bars to 0.
I'm on Verizon.
Anyone else experiencing this?
quadcrap1 said:
I have discovered that if I'm in a location with mediocre (but WITH reception), that if I hold the phone, the signal (bars) will often drop to 0, and carrying out a phone conversation is near impossible. But if I put the phone down (put it on speaker), the bars/reception come back and I can carry out the conversation.
The effect is pretty bad, sometimes going from 3 bars to 0.
I'm on Verizon.
Anyone else experiencing this?
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I notice this from time to time as well. I dont know if its more sensitive to certain bands or what but I dont see it all the time but I have seen it more than I would like. Thought it was just me and my service.
Yeah i noticed that as well. I leave !my phone alone overnight, I get "green" reception. Once I start using it, the reception gets temperamental and it drops to yellow, sometimes red
quadcrap1 said:
I have discovered that if I'm in a location with mediocre signal (but WITH reception), that if I hold the phone, the signal (bars) will often drop to 0, and carrying out a phone conversation is near impossible. But if I put the phone down (put it on speaker), the bars/reception come back and I can carry out the conversation.
The effect is pretty bad, sometimes going from 3 bars to 0.
I'm on Verizon.
Anyone else experiencing this?
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I have the same issue. It seems more prominent when I grip the top edges of the phone. Lose significant signal on both WiFi and cellular. Reminds me of antenna gate of the iPhone.
Apple -> "Grip Gate"
Ive noticed that the bars go to nothing when im on WIFI with WIFI calling enabled. No matter how good or bad the signal is where i am. Once i kill WIFI, the bars jump right back up. Im assuming this is a power saver feature. I dont remember my V20 doing this, but I do recall my 6P dropping the bars by half
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I'm just fishing for some others who might have experienced this problem, and then for any possible solutions.
Short: When I lose signal for an extended period of time, it never comes back. I have to perform a reboot or turn airplane mode on and off (which seems to take around 2-3 minutes when this issue occurs) for signal to return.
Long (to give you a better idea of what I'm talking about):
The other day I visited the Marine Corps Museum. While inside, I lost signal. After about an hour or so we left the museum and headed towards DC (that's Washington, D.C. - the nation's capital and one of the best areas to be a T-Mobile customer).
I hadn't tried to use my phone since I had first walked inside the museum, but about 20 minutes after leaving I pulled out my phone to text message a friend and I noticed I still had no signal. I waited for a minute to see if the signal would come back, but it never did.
I rebooted my phone and my signal returned (full bar HSDPA).
I know I wasn't in a bad signal area. I was on Route 1 North, which I know for a fact has great data coverage with T-Mobile. There are a couple of spots on I-95 that drop signal, but it's usually between Fredericksburg and Stafford for about 0.5 miles (I was nowhere near there).
Has anyone experienced a similar issue?
I have this same issue daily. I do not get a signal at work and have to reboot or turn airplane mode on then off to regain a signal. It is frustrating to say the least.
I'd like to draw your attention to those two threads: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=632552 and http://forum.cyanogenmod.com/index.php?/topic/1599-loss-of-signal-no-reacquisition-issue/
Right now I'm logging the output of logcat to SD card, waiting for the issue to reappear... it would be awesome if we had a way to reliably reproduce the issue, but so far, I didn't find one.
My phone has recently been messing up, and it's rather annoying.
I'll unlock my phone, try to use my data connection, and it won't load a page. I look at the top, and there is no 3g icon. Only way to fix it is to put it into airplane mode and back again. Anyone else have this issue?
I have a replacement on it's way because it keeps shorting out with a line in jack, but it wont be here for a while because of the back orders.
I searched the forums, didn't see this topic addressed, sorry if this is already being discussed.
I have the same problem with 3G dropping into 1X with a decent signal. I got the Real Signal app from the Market which will display the EVDO and CDMA signal separately and discovered that the EVDO signal was at least -10 to -25 db weaker than the CDMA signal. I reported this to VZ and they were supposed to send some one out to this location to check the tower signal and get back to me but have heard nothing for about 5 days now. Will check with them again tomorrow. I think that it is an antenna problem or radio front end problem on the 1900 MHZ band. Need to find out something by the middle of next week because my 30 day period will be up then.
It doesn't just lose 3g, it has no data connection at all. Only way to fix it is airplane mode or power off then on.
Mine is liking to drop my signal to 1x. And my call quality sucks.
Mine stopped loading web pages all together. You have to clear the cash is is defaulted to 6mb. That is what Verizon told me to do and the phone works great. I run the world at war page from face book all day. Face book is blocked by my company's software. Every night I clear the cash.
hey everyone
so my G2, which I absolutely love, has been having a problem lately. in the first week it happened maybe once and i didn't think much of it, but since Friday it's happened like 8 times now. I'll be sitting there with my G2 and all the sudden I have no service whatsoever. Just an x on the signal strength indicator. 1 or 2 times it has come back after a minute or two, but the other times I had to turn the phone off and back on. the weird part is I'm not moving at all, totally sitting still, but when it comes back on I have FULL bars with HSPA+. so it's not like I walked into an area that didn't get good reception.
any idea what's going on? i looked around but didn't see other people having this issue. any ideas?
thanks
alright well at least i'm not alone. i remember that rumored OTA update was supposed to have some radio bugfixes. maybe when the real OTA update comes it will have something to fix this. i hope so.
I have been trying to diagnose this issue on my phone too.
By any chance, do either of you have your BT on at the time?
Happens to mine as described and I have never turned on bluetooth. However this would also happen to my G1 so I think its a network thing personally.
Yeah, it definitely is. I have 2 areas that it happens in, both are while I am in my car and I have BT on in my car. When I ran it without BT, did not happen.
I have found that when I am in those area's, turning off 3G stops it entirely, even with BT on, so when in my car, I set edge and still use my BT and problem is gone.
I hope this is temporary and an OTA can fix the handoff from 3G to Edge and back better so that I can stop this, but this works well enough.
Mine has done that also, maybe once a week for the past 3 weeks.
Judging by the other problems you can have Id say this one isnt that bad. Especially if it only happens once a week haha. This is the only problem I have with my phone.
no bluetooth...
no no bluetooth on, i never do actually... but also my G1 never did this, which makes me think it's NOT a network thing, but I don't know.
also I'm sure this is just coincidence but it almost always happens when my girlfriend is nearby with her T-Mobile Blackberry Curve. i know it wouldn't make any sense, but she's sitting there on the same network with full service and all the sudden my G2 loses service completely, right next to her... although it's not always while she's there, but like the majority of the times she's been there.
I just started another post to check on something, I have widgets that show me when I am connected to 3G and when I am connected to H. I have noticed that the phone is activity managing that connection. In other word, it is in 3G until data is transfered then it goes to H. I wonder if when we are in areas of "questionable" HSDPA signal if this hand off is causing the problems.
I have seen a lot of op's say that there problems come right after some data activity?
Just a guess a this point
i saw someone mention in another post that it happens after/during a text message alot of times. i haven't noticed that myself, but that's something to think about too.
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I just started another post to check on something, I have widgets that show me when I am connected to 3G and when I am connected to H. I have noticed that the phone is activity managing that connection. In other word, it is in 3G until data is transfered then it goes to H. I wonder if when we are in areas of "questionable" HSDPA signal if this hand off is causing the problems.
I have seen a lot of op's say that there problems come right after some data activity?
Just a guess a this point
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What I've heard is that the phone will stay in 3G mode until you begin using data in order to save battery life. Makes sense to me.
i noticed that every few seconds or so the wifi icon would go all black, no bars, and the connection of whatever i was doing such as browsing would be lost.
when i did some searching on xda it seems most people believed that it was to do with their routers but one person said it was the antenna being connected to the case at the top left when in portrait so if your hand was holding it there, that would cause it. i held it elsewhere and no drop out.
if i put my hand back there, it wasnt instantly dropped but after a few seconds it did and when i removed my hand again not instant but the signal came back.
anyone else experiencing this?
i just ordered a case that i wanted anyway, will this maybe help this issue also as my hand wont be directly touching that area?
if I put my hand over the top of the device while in portrait view the signal drops down a bit but I don't lose signal.
I've never actually lost signal while in a covered area. At home at the farthest distance from an AC point, I still have good signal w/65Mbps connection.
Sent from my Nexus 7
cheers.
there is a definate drop from 3-4 bars down to 1-2 bars within 1 second of putting my hand over that location. if at the same time there is maybe something else downloading on my PC or something similar, that causes that last bit of a problem and the signal drops.
You're holding it wrong!
Lol jk I have the same issue too. This tablet has the worst wifi reception of all times... Of all times.
I'm seeing slight issue at 11.g, would probably be accentuated at a further distance from router.. perhaps an external mod, foil under tape?
What does the black dot on WiFi icon indicate?
I experience this exact issue. My router is at the top of the stairs on the 2nd floor. I can sit on the couch downstairs about 20 feet away and this happens all the time. This may be the type of antennas and or software these companies are using in general. My wife has the same issue with the galaxy tab 7.7.
My iPad however reaches through the whole house including from the basement and never drops below the max 4/4 bars on either a 2.4 or 5 Ghz bands.
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I remember reading that apple had some top notch experts working on antenna designs during issues with iphone reception. The rhing is I can get great speeds with good reception, so it must be antenna proficiency that is the issue.
I have this issue too
I have this issue too but I'm not certain it has anything to do with the the way I hold the tablet.
It's really annoying, and I don't have a clue about what the cause is. Like thevuman said, worst wifi reception of all time, of all time.
Wifi channel?
you could try changing your wifi channel through the routers settings because interference may be the problem.
the below app can tell you the best channels to use though my router tells me to not use channel 13 and 14 because it might be incompatible.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...SwyLDEsImNvbS5mYXJwcm9jLndpZmkuYW5hbHl6ZXIiXQ
once downloaded tap view>channel rating.
alex xander said:
you could try changing your wifi channel through the routers settings because interference may be the problem.
the below app can tell you the best channels to use though my router tells me to not use channel 13 and 14 because it might be incompatible.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...SwyLDEsImNvbS5mYXJwcm9jLndpZmkuYW5hbHl6ZXIiXQ
once downloaded tap view>channel rating.
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I used wifi analyzer like you suggested and ended up changing my channel and killing the guest network, and it hasn't dropped again, at least not like it used to. So yeah this looks like a good fix.
Sent from my Nexus 7 using xda app-developers app
Did a factory reset 2 months ago.
main issue is it will hang on any web/page/link with 1 bar signal. A few seconds after turning it horizontal, it will get 4+ bars and behave like I turned on cell data and continue. I can't use the phone all the time in horizontal. Keyboard app is very big and uses almost the whole screen. From covid my stress levels are through the roof and have very shaky hands. I was admitted to psychology ward from too much stress a few. Months back
Anyone have this problem?
Will factory reset. I use work wifi with no issue at all. Never hanging or no internet working. Might be an antenna issue. I'll try to pay attention but outdoors no issues. Indoors seems to be the issue. I've captured this with another phone. Ironic... I hold it vertically and it has 1 bar and hangs....turn horizontal and it goes to 4-5 bars and internet kicks in