Since I live in a rural area in the United States signal is never the best because of tower distance and device lacks many of the US lte bands. What I have noticed is that signal strength and data speeds are lower when I am charging. Anyone else notice this? I noticed same thing in my old redmi note 4x also.
My mi 8 lite also has weak signal 4g and weak wifi signal
I am not seeing this on mine (6/128 version), but I have 4 to 5 bars when I am located.
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Hello everyone!
I received my Vibrant from the US a week ago and noticed that when 3G is on, the reception is 1/2 bars at most. While it's connected, the device gets hot in the top part and the battery drains like a F1 racing car.
I though I could see how good is the signal and it's about (-90) - (-100) dbm.
I never had reception issues with my previous phone that is 3 years old (HTC Touch Cruise) whose reception is quite good. My company's antenna is about 1 Km far and it's emitting 3G in the WCDMA 2100 MHz band.
Could any setting improve the reception to avoid heating and battery consumption?
Thanks a lot!!
You may want to try to set it to 2G only if you want a good battery life.
Sent from my SGH-T959 using XDA App
Maybe somebody knows an application that switches from 3G to 2G when the reception is not good. It might be very handy.
Also, I wanted to know what levels are acceptable in dbm for a 3G connection that doesn't drain the battery like crazy.
Thanks for your reply!
are there any tweaks to make it better or that's how the Thunderbolt is? I have the Droid X and Thunderbolt side by side, all day today and the difference is like day and night. While the Droid X is always full bars 3G the Thunderbolt has barely 2 bars, mostly just one and even loses 3g.
HTC prob uses a different range for their signal bars. I'd compare actual dBm as the true thing to see your signal strength. In settings, about, status, etc.
So is the reception worse on the TB than comparable phones? Have heard sporadic reports of reception concerns.
GermanGuy said:
So is the reception worse on the TB than comparable phones? Have heard sporadic reports of reception concerns.
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The dB readings with my inc and tb..are the same side by side
...htc is notorious for having lower signal bars...but the reception is on par with other phones
I have a galaxy S3 but the signal strength is awful compared to other phones I have tried side by side. Its fine if there is a strong signal, but cannot cope if the signal drops a bit, so poor reception and dropped calls. Its not hardware as I've had replacements. I've compared to HTC desire and One X. One X had 14-16 asu where this had dropped to about 3-4. At home it hovers around 0-2 asu so it is no good for me.
This isn't just me - a google of galaxy S3 signal problem brings up a few results.
So .. is there anyone on here who knows how the radio ROM is designed on these phones. Does the reciever work low power at the moment and can it be increased in a new ROM, or is this likely to be an inherrent design issue? I want to keep this phone but my 7 days are nearly up and I can't be stuck with a phone that doesn't work as a phone for 24 months.
Both network (vodafone) and Samsung are burying their head in the sand.
Thanks
Most of the time Wi-Fi is at 1-2 bars along with LTE.
Noticed this problem in Hong Kong,China and Taiwan. Various dim cards and various Wi-Fi routers.
poor LTE speed
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Most of the time Wi-Fi is at 1-2 bars along with LTE.
Noticed this problem in Hong Kong,China and Taiwan. Various dim cards and various Wi-Fi routers.
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i m facing the same problem i have note 4 that is quite well than s6 edge in 3g and 4g
This could be the cause of some people's battery drain as their phones keep switching from LTE down to 3g. If this phone was better tuned for LTE it would be more battery efficient.
Not sure a software fix can do much about this. Its probably the antenna design, but we can live in hope!
My Wifi is fine.
However, I've been having poor 4G since day 1. I keep having 1-2 bars of 4G consistently at my workplace where my G3 did 3 or more bars.
The thing is, it does stick to 4G pretty well and not loose that 1-2 bars easily to downshift to 3G, so I am not too concerned. Voice calls and data speeds are also not affected. It's just that vidual indicator...
my wifi and data signals are excellent. haven't been to a spot where there's good lte signal
Always use device status to read signal in dBm.
Many phones' "signal strength meters" are far from accurate often showing much higher perceived signal than reality.
My S5 was like that.
This may just be corrected now in as much one bar for -112dBm (instead of three) is more accurate, relatively speaking.
A device should only show five bars if the signal level is very strong, say -65dBm.
Problem is most of the time people would never see five bars. Carriers don't like that.
Perhaps we need to change to an advanced "tech" mode where the signal strength readout is in "S" units with 9 being the reference and stronger signals show in "dB over nine". Like HF transceivers and CB radios (anyone remember those? )
I would be happy with -dBm on the status bar instead of a series of bars. iOS allows for it and it's accurate. Can't believe it's not baked into Android being it's the choice OS for techies.
Compared my Wifi download speeds to my iPhone 6 and the iPhone 6 was faster. These 2 pictures are wifi download screenshots from iPhone 6
Here is the same location using my Galaxy S6 Edge
Hello, compared to Note 4 S6 really hurt my Edge captures the mobile network.
I'm wondering if I have a defective phone. Has anyone else had noticeably worse wifi signal strength on their A52?
Comparing my A50 and A52 when they're beside each other:
A50A522.4 Ghz-53 dBm-69 dBm5 Ghz-72 dBm-81 dBm