How many of you have had dropped calls on the Captivate?
I haven't had any, and I got my Captivate on the 16th. (2 days before launch from BestBuy).
I am coming from an iPhone 3G/3GS/4 and had many dropped calls.
What I am implying is that AT&T's network isn't totally crap (as most people suggest). I believe it is due to the iPhone that people think at&t's network is crap.
So the question is:
1. Does the Captivate have an exceptionally great antennea?
2. Has at&t network suddenly gotten better(since July 16th)?
3. The iphone 3G/3GS/4 have a horrible antennae?
4. Any combination of the above 3?
I've been with AT&T since before Cingular bought the old AT&T.
AT&T does not have a bad network. They suffer from terrible PR, relatively poor customer support (due to their new training with the new AT&T as I didn't have problems with Cingular), and allowing Apple to produce its phone the way they did.
The iPhone has had a poor antenna design since the beginning.
The people who have problems with AT&T, I can guarantee 70%+ have iPhones.
Thanks for confirming what I just learned. I have had iphones for a long time, and just dealt with the dropped calls thinking it was at&t sh**y network. I really like Apple products, but they don't know how to make a phone.
All my friends still think its at&t even though I tell them I haven't had a dropped call yet on this Samsung.
Yeah.. I try and tell my mother that all of the time.
She just got rid of her iPhone 2g.
Her eyes have just been opened hahaha
I have been with ATT/Cingular since .. oh.. 1998?
I've had many phones, some that would drop calls, usually from being out of ATT towers in massively rural areas, or driving past the towers too fast..
I got the eternity when it came out, killed 2 (6 months on the dot, both times) and they gave me an impression which I promptly notices it's screen starting to die at 6 months-ish. They dropped calls only when I was 1) out of decent service 2) driving too fast past a tower in close proximity as it tried to switch carriers.
This puppy? Not even a crackle.
I had a Fuze (Touch Pro) most recently (new ROM, Radio, etc) and it dropped calls quite frequently.
I think I may have had one dropped call so far but it was in my office which gets poor signal anyways. I had many more on my last phone but I'm not quite ready to say AT&T is so great. Maybe this phone has a better antenna.
Thanks for all the replies. I am trying to convert a few of my friends, but the general stigma is "Android Sux" They don't even know about the OS, all they know is their sister/cousin/friend has some crappy Backflip, so All android is crappy.
Oh well I will be plenty happy with my calls staying connected, while they complain about their dropped calls because of AT&T's network.
For me to leave the iPhone was exceptionally hard, because I have 3 Macs, and AppleTV, iPod Touch, and Airport Extreme. I have spent Thousands of dollars on apps from the app store along with Movies. I just had enough with the dropped calls.
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How many of you have had dropped calls on the Captivate?
I haven't had any, and I got my Captivate on the 16th. (2 days before launch from BestBuy).
I am coming from an iPhone 3G/3GS/4 and had many dropped calls.
What I am implying is that AT&T's network isn't totally crap (as most people suggest). I believe it is due to the iPhone that people think at&t's network is crap.
So the question is:
1. Does the Captivate have an exceptionally great antennea?
2. Has at&t network suddenly gotten better(since July 16th)?
3. The iphone 3G/3GS/4 have a horrible antennae?
4. Any combination of the above 3?
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I haven't had a single dropped call. Voice quality seems higher than on iphones. (Can't vouch for other androids)
I have had the captivate since day one, no drop calls, i would have had at least 2-3 by now with my old iphone 3g. I have been with AT&T/cingular in both New Orleans 8 years and San Diego 10 years the iphone was the worst followed by the 82** (Htc tilt). The captivate is one of the better phones.
I also haven't had any dropped call issues like I did with my old iPhones in the same places. My N1 has also been fantastic without dropping, so I'm more apt to blame poor design of the iphones
I've been with Cingular/AT&T for 18 years & moved to the Captivate from a Razr. My Razr was very good, but the Captivate is better. I'm happy to have switched to a smart phone & glad I waited for the Captivate.
Sorry, but I have to laugh at all you iPhone (iCrap) users complaining about dropped calls. Obviously, I'm not a fan of the iPhone - but, that's another story.
I have been with ATT/Cingular/ATT since 1993. My first, second, third, and fourth devices were all Nokias (3 & 4 were WM device which I customized by using XDA resources), 5th was a BB Curve (for only a few months as I didn't like it either and gave it to my wife when the G1 came out). I bought the G1 within weeks of it's release from Craigslist.
Except for device #2 I have NEVER had an issue with dropped calls - AND, I work patrol for a Sheriff's Office - so, I'm mostly in RURAL areas. I would receive/make/retain calls in areas that my co-workers had no signal at all. Many of them had iPhones and complained about dropping calls... I used to think they were somehow on T-Mobile's network (which used to be horrible in my area).
My wife never had dropped calls with her BB Curve.
My G1 and now the Captivate NEVER drop calls. As much fun was made of the G1 - it worked like a charm within the limitations of it's hardware (ram/rom/camera).
The device plays a HUGE role in the number of dropped calls. My second Nokia device was only kept for a short while b/c of that issue. The third and later devices had NO ISSUES at all with dropped calls. If there was ANY signal there was no problem.
I have had over 20 dropped calls in the two weeks I have had the phone. I don't know what the issue is. I have avoided all death grips that I have read about. I think I'll take it into the ATT store tomorrow to see what's going on since I seem to be the only one. Any other suggestions?
I haven't dropped a call yet, but I never dropped one with my iPhone either. I actually had dropped calls with my nokia phones though, which is surprising because generally I have good service with them.
I haven't had a dropped call yet, and I'm not anticipating many. I, like many others in this thread, have been with AT&T for the last 14+ years, and despite heavy phone usage, in all that time, I've probably had 30 dropped calls total, if that. I went through several incarnations of Nokias, then onto Motorolas, a Sony-Ericsson, back to Nokia, a Samsung Omnia, and now the Captivate.
There was a brief, month-long period where I had concurrent TMobile and AT&T accounts, during which I tested out the HTC HD2 (after waiting months for its release), and when I compared the signal of the TMo phone and the AT&T phone, it was no contest - AT&T won everywhere I took it. When I was on the California coast, TMobile had no signal, while AT&T had a full 5 bars. That was the clincher. I returned my beloved HD2 and dropped TMobile like a hot potato.
Maybe I've just gotten really lucky, but AT&T's network has been great for me. Yes, their customer service is ridiculously poor, but in terms of functionality, their network is as good as I could hope for. I, too, suspect that the people who complain about their calls being dropped are just on crappy devices. Either that, or I've just been uncommonly lucky the last decade and a half.
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I have had over 20 dropped calls in the two weeks I have had the phone. I don't know what the issue is. I have avoided all death grips that I have read about. I think I'll take it into the ATT store tomorrow to see what's going on since I seem to be the only one. Any other suggestions?
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I have the same problem only when the call goes over 2mins, it some how likes to auto update time and date, call get drop, time is updated.... looks like it was a radio error with switching bands between voice and data
uncheck the auto time and date updates and see if it fixes the problem
why do ATT have to molest every damn good phone
The only device I ever dropped calls on was my iPhine 3g, and I've been on AT&T since it was Cingular. Haven't dropped a single call since getting rid of it.
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Never had a dropped call.
Call quality may be decreased, but no dropped call here.
I have also been an AT&T/Cingular customer for over a decade. The service where I live has never been good, I'll say that. I got an iPhone 4 and could barely talk on it here without it dropping. My old 2.5G iPhone worked pretty well, with maybe a dropped call ever other day. My captivate is right in the middle. Better than the iPhone 4, but at least one dropped call a day.
I have had much better success with this phone than others with dropped calls but still do occasionally get them. Anyone know of a way to enable a notification sound that the call has ended?
Was on a call last week and kept talking for probably 30 seconds after it had dropped off.
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Anyone else notice poorer reception in their Verizon TP2 versus a regular TP or Touch? The Imagio/Diamond 2 is out on the 6th and am thinking of making the switch or swapping out my TP2 depending on other people's experience.
In particular the lunch and conference rooms at my office always had poor reception but I still always got calls on my previous Touches but this one I actually miss calls. So I am comparing apples to apples in a very repeatable test area and the TP2 appears worse.
I've read of several peeps reporting this issue, but fortunatly for me my tp2 is very good RF wise and most every other which way as well. Lovin' it.
I am trying to ignore it and hoping a radio flash (when HardSPL gets done) will help but my VZW TP2 is borderline for being able to complain about the radio. My wife is a long term user of VZW and I in the past. What I have noticed is that on the North side of my house I have dropped a few calls in the last week that I have owned the device (my wife NEVER drops calls with her VZW phone and I only dropped once in a blue moon with ATT).
So network or phone ?? I think it actually is phone but this borderline behavior has been solved for me in the past by radio upgrade/change with other devices.
After a few more days I have to say I have missed even more calls. I am going to swap it out for another and see what happens.
my sprint TP2 has better reception than my sprint TP
i wonder if we got better transceivers than yall since sprint has all radios.
They all are saying AT&T is evil, I'm crazy blah blah vampire emergency blah...
OMG WHAT HAVE I DONE????
Seriously. All Cellular carriers in the US are evil. Just in different ways. Why all the AT&T hate? Where's the gotchas?
Are they paying for your phone or wireless bill?
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Are they paying for your phone or wireless bill?
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Ditto. Plenty of people have legitimate reasons to complain about AT&T (dropped calls, lack of coverage, etc) but plenty of people have never had a single issue with them. Personally I just switched to AT&T for the Captivate (formerly with T-Mobile) and I've been happy so far. I get at least the same if not better coverage and my bill is actually cheaper thanks to a 21% discount from my employer.
it's fashionable to hate at&t. If you listened to these people, at&t would have worse coverage than tmobile. Anyone who's ever owned both outside of a major metro area knows that's a joke.
AT&T issues are market-based and are not universal. If any of your "friends" are iPhone 4 users, their problems are universal.
i dont have any real complaints with service anymore (one perk of the iphone)
but i dont think ive had one single interaction with att that they didnt mess up (ex. adding a line and putting a messaging block on the whole account. wtf?)
I was one of those that had trouble with at&t. I had each iPhone generation, and all 3g versions would drop calls. Now I will say I worked for apple retail at the genius bar for this time period, and it was all to frequent in terms of customers complaining. I bought the hype that it was at&T's sucky network causing all the issues.
Then the iPhone 4 hit. I had one. Returned it due to lack of satisfaction with he fix for the search grip as well as the proximity sensor issue. I immediately went and got the captivate.
I haven't dropped a single call since. Not one. Even in areas that were guaranteed to drop on 3 successive generations of iPhone. I have yet to have any issue.
That tells me something.
That I will not go back. No matter what.
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I haven't dropped a single call since. Not one. Even in areas that were guaranteed to drop on 3 successive generations of iPhone. I have yet to have any issue.
That tells me something.
That I will not go back. No matter what.
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Same, my wife and I were disgusted with our iPhone 3Gs, both dropped calls and limited customization, and poor performance with the iOS 4 update. It was so bad we thought it was AT&T's network and were contemplating on switching carriers. I decided to try out the Captivate, and it's been awesome.
And your buddies are jealous, that's all
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I was one of those that had trouble with at&t. I had each iPhone generation, and all 3g versions would drop calls. Now I will say I worked for apple retail at the genius bar for this time period, and it was all to frequent in terms of customers complaining. I bought the hype that it was at&T's sucky network causing all the issues.
Then the iPhone 4 hit. I had one. Returned it due to lack of satisfaction with he fix for the search grip as well as the proximity sensor issue. I immediately went and got the captivate.
I haven't dropped a single call since. Not one. Even in areas that were guaranteed to drop on 3 successive generations of iPhone. I have yet to have any issue.
That tells me something.
That I will not go back. No matter what.
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My experience is similar. I have had at&t for years.i never had a problem with them until I had an iphone. The three I had dropped calls constantly. Now I have the captivate and at&t is great again.
thanks all. You'll never get a die hard apple fanboi to admit the iphone problems are problems with the phone. Thanks for the positive stories
Yeah, when I had my first gen iPhone, I occasionally dropped calls and just generally had bad quality. I figured it was AT&T's infamous network. I almost switched carriers, but I was prepaid at that time and had built up nearly a 500 dollar balance on my account, so I didn't want to lose that. So, I gave the Blackberry Bold (9000) a try - turns out it was the iPhone all along. I got great reception and fantastic call quality on my Bold.
I haven't made many calls with my Captivate - frankly, the voice/phone portion of my cellphone is fairly low on my priorities - but while it doesn't really seem to quite be up to the level of my Bold, it's still far ahead of my iPhone.
Same story here.
Had a WinMo phone for years (HTC Hermes) then switched to iPhone, started dropping calls, and losing data. It wasn't too big, and at about the same time I moved into a basement apt. I chalked it up to all the concrete that I could not talk on the phone when home. We moved again, and on my commute to and from work there were 3 spots that would lose signal EVERY time. Calls would drop, Pandora would stop playing, etc. Then I got my HTC Aria, same commute, far fewer dropped calls, then my Captivate (day 30 of my Aria return window) and haven't dropped a call since on the commute. AT&T having network issues? I think not.
I am giddy at the chance of a Verizon iPhone, so all the people complaining about AT&T will see that the iPhone on any network sucks.
I've had at&t for years, because until recently it was all we had I'm my area that was any count at all. Recently Verizon has moved in, and I did consider switching because of hardware choices. But I waited it out, and decided to go ahead with my Captivate, and I'm loving it. My friends all have iPhones and so did I. I never had the problems that they seem to have, but I'm happier now anyway being away from the tyranny of Steve Jobs.
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i had to switch to at&t because of work. i do a lot of international travel and at&t's list of countries is about 5x bigger than any other carrier for reduced roaming rates. and GSM is more universal and i didn't want verizon's blackberry offerings.
i had minor issues with call drops, but that's because i'm usually in large metal/concrete airplane hangers.
so far though, no issues with captive. even with one bar, no call quality issues either in the states...or as of so far hong kong.
oh and my entire office but 2 others have iphones and i got nothing but flack for not getting one. glad i didn't
I have been with ATT since 1998 and the only issues I have ever had with dropped calls was with the following phones since the Cingular/ATT Merger: Nokia N-Gage QD, Motorola V551 *just close to my house*, Motorola V3 *close to my house and when the phone was at the end of its life*, Samsung Sync *bought it used of fleabay worst cell ever*, Nokia N55 *would drop in typical black hole areas*, Motorola Razr2 *POS never could get a good voice call on it no matter what area I was in*, Blackberry Curve 8300 *dropped calls in blackhole areas*, BB 8310 *same as 8300*, BB Bold 9000 Same as the previous BBs, and now the Captivate *same as the BB in terms of dropped calls which equals about 2 dropped calls in the past 5 weeks or so*...
Now funny thing when I talk to a couple of my friends who actually have the iPhone, they drop randomly and it is pretty funny where I dont have the issue with my Captivate. Even my friend who is also a snake breeder *boas, pythons and other snakes*, told me today he likes his iPhone 3G besides the dropping call issue and asked me how Android is treating me, I said I love it and not going back to BB...
HTH,
Charlie
Gunny, wtf Re you doing here in the ATT phone section? Shouldn't you be in the Hero section? >¦(
LOL
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LOL notasimpleway. Got tired of having an out of date phone and super slow EVDO.
Just got in the new Samsung Nexus S from Sprint and I've noticed some major issues in reception versus the HTC Evo from Sprint as well. I'm seeing a 2+ bar difference in the exact location sitting next to the Evo on the same Sprint network.
Is anybody having this issue? Or does anybody know of a fix.
I have the latest firmware (suggested fix by Sprint) and have seen several complaints about it on other less developer friendly forums.
If I can't come up with a solution soon, I think I'll have to get an Evo. But if you guys can understand, I'd prefer to keep the phone that will get timely updates.
Thanks ahead of time for any suggestions!
You can't compare signal across different devices based on "bars". Check the actual signal strength in Menu > Settings > About Phone.
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I know you need dB... As soon as I can get the Evo next to me again for a comparison, I will post.
I'm a tech savvy guy, run a computer building company and build websites. I even develop some entry-level apps for a few clients (yes entry-level).
If one googles "spring nexus s reception," they'll find that this issue is quite common. I'm just curious as to whether it's hopeless or not.
I know I can petition for the Airave with Sprint and can at least get decent service at home.
It just seems peculiar to me that Google would endorse an inferior product. I live in a major Metropolitan area (DMA has it as a top 25 market - for those who aren't in the media business, that means it's one of the top 25 sized cities in the country). And this phone gets dismal reception.
Fact is, Evo does great in my house, Nexus S does not. I've heard some pretty bad reviews with the Galaxy S line of hardware so I'm figuring it's worth moving to the Evo.
To be honest, this phone is far superior (at the moment) with responsiveness and usability but if a phone can't operate well at being a phone, it's a waste of money. Especially if the hardware is inferior (phone-wise) to most of what HTC released a year ago. I love having a mini-computer in my pocket but I did aim at having a working phone.
Thoughts? Suggestions? School me? I will post the exact numbers when they again are available, until then, please only offer up friendly advice or questions. I am willing to try anything before taking this thing back.
You have not really described your issue. Do you have dropped calls or what?
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I'm having issues with the Sprint Nexus S reception as well. Although my home location on Sprint's coverage map lists my area from medium to strong with 4G available right around the corner from my house I have dismal reception with the Nexus S. I had a trial EVO for a few weeks and reception was much better in the same area. If I try to call the Nexus S I often go right to voicemail, I'm told calls out (when I can) are choppy, data signal is often listed as 1x as opposed to 3g. Is it just this particular phone? Should I go to a Sprint store to have it tested?
There is atl least one thread over at the Sprint Message boards about bad reception on the Nexus S.
At work we have a repeater and the signal still only shows at one or two bars most of the time but data speeds seemed fine to me and I had no problem with making and getting calls.
No one else is having this issue?
This isn't the first post about this subject. I understand and agree. I'm not 100% sure about this when it comes to cell phones but different companies with different radios will give you different signals. If this is the same as two way radios, there's no standard on say how much signal equals one bar on the meter. Even the programs that give the signal strength in numbers, aren't universally accurate. When it comes to received signal, its how you can hear it, not really what the meter says. That number can easily be manipulated. A receiver sensitivity can be adjusted too but there are things that are thrown out too. Crank up the receive and you get more noise than distinguishing signal and adjacent frequency rejection goes to crap. You can work the receiver to have good rejection and sensitivity but you are making it more deaf too.
What I'm getting at is don't always go by what the signal meter says and take it as 100% truth. It is a good indicator of signal but not absolutely 100% accurate.
I am sitting about twenty feet from my router and yet the meter is telling me 50% signal which I know is bull****.
are you up to date?
Yobye, are you on 2.3.4? I have heard the update fixes some people's signal/radio issues.
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I'm having issues with the Sprint Nexus S reception as well. Although my home location on Sprint's coverage map lists my area from medium to strong with 4G available right around the corner from my house I have dismal reception with the Nexus S. I had a trial EVO for a few weeks and reception was much better in the same area. If I try to call the Nexus S I often go right to voicemail, I'm told calls out (when I can) are choppy, data signal is often listed as 1x as opposed to 3g. Is it just this particular phone? Should I go to a Sprint store to have it tested?
There is atl least one thread over at the Sprint Message boards about bad reception on the Nexus S.
At work we have a repeater and the signal still only shows at one or two bars most of the time but data speeds seemed fine to me and I had no problem with making and getting calls.
No one else is having this issue?
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Ditto on this. Have all the latest updates. Think it may be time to trade in for the Evo.
I am on 2.3.4. I brought home another Sprint phone from work - a Sanyo Taho and got about the same terrible reception despite the fact I'm in a Sprint Best Coverage area on their map. I miss and drop calls and can't get voice or data connection - send mms, etc from my home. I've contacted Sprint about the tower strength in my neighborhood.
I ordered 4 galaxy S3's for my family plan from amazonwireless for the $99 deal 2 weeks ago. Right away we noticed all of them have extremely poor call quality compared to our previous phones. I live in a major city with good reception so it doesn't make sense. It literally sounds like we are standing next to a jet engine while driving and people that we are calling are constantly complaining. I turned off the noise cancellation and made sure the microphones weren't covered by the cases but no improvments. Anyone else experiencing louder than usual background noise and raspy/choppy voice quality? Any suggestions on fixes? I'm beginning to suspect that amazon/samsung dumped a bunch of defective units for the $99 deal they had.
"Poor" may be relative, but what kind of phones did you have previously?
Call quality on our two Galaxy S III phones have been very good, I feel. At least, it sounds better than comparable iPhone 4s and other Androids we've owned, but we've had a few minor incidents of borked signal (or something) with Verizon or the phone(s) that required a redial to correct since receiving them from pre-order.
Perhaps consider use of a Voice Recorder or memo function on the new and old phones, generating sound files you can compare on a single piece of equipment to sort of test the microphone. This assumes each voice recording app use similar specifications for sampling, etc. but might help pinpoint the mic vs other causes of what you hear.
- ooofest
We all had the epic 4g touch (galaxy II) on sprint before. The problem is so bad that practically everyone I've called is reporting it to me and my family members are having the same experience. I can hear it first hand when we call each other. My wife sounds like a raspy 90 year old grandmother. If we are in any location other than a completely silent room the call is unbearable. It's like the microphone sensitivity is way to high. Definitely not an isolated incident. It's every call.
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We all had the epic 4g touch (galaxy II) on sprint before. The problem is so bad that practically everyone I've called is reporting it to me and my family members are having the same experience. I can hear it first hand when we call each other. My wife sounds like a raspy 90 year old grandmother. If we are in any location other than a completely silent room the call is unbearable. It's like the microphone sensitivity is way to high. Definitely not an isolated incident. It's every call.
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I don't have this issue at all either. My friend has a S3 and we talk all the time when we are driving with the windows part down and not 1 complaint.
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I don't have this issue at all either. My friend has a S3 and we talk all the time when we are driving with the windows part down and not 1 complaint.
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Yep looks like were going to have to return the phones for new ones. Ours are obviously defective units. Problem is amazonwireless makes you go 4-6 days without a phone to exchange and I have no phone to temporarily switch to. Never buying from them again.
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Yep looks like were going to have to return the phones for new ones. Ours are obviously defective units. Problem is amazonwireless makes you go 4-6 days without a phone to exchange and I have no phone to temporarily switch to. Never buying from them again.
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Sorry to hear, though it seems so odd that all four phones would have this same problem if it was a phone hardware defect. One might expect that one or two phones have a serious issue, but all four having the exact same defect seems very strange.
Something must be common to them all, I guess: each was categorized as having the same problems for reconditioning and sat in a "fixed" pile to send out, they were all made during the same (bad) run in original manufacturing, they are all roaming due to a common activation issue, the local network is not healthy for them for some reason or perhaps some unique software is running that interferes with the voice.
I attached two screenshots from my Settings -> About submenu for Verizon . . . do yours look similar?
If you made a local voice recording, playback sounds just as bad as over the phone?
Are you now on Verizon? I guess that's why you're posting here, but just checking my assumption. If so, do you have a local Verizon store in which you can test yours vs one of their store models to ensure this isn't something inherent to the way this model phone works with their local network? It sounds like you came from Sprint, so I wonder if there's a fundamental problem with that Verizon location, for some strange reason.
- ooofest
This past weekend I went on vacation with my girlfriend and my family and the area we were in had almost no cell service at all, so I was able to do some comparison between my HTC One S, my girlfriends Iphone 4s and my sister's Galaxy S3. All 3 phones were on the Bell/Telus HSPA network. My dad's Iphone 4s and my mom's HTC One X both refused to get any service cause they were on the Rogers network which had no service at all there.
The Galaxy S3 on the same network as us showed no service at al the whole time, no matter what she did. Both my girlfriends IP4 and my HOS would intermittently get 1-2 bars of service and allow us to send/receive texts and even browse facebook if we held the phones just right. It's really hard to say between the two because the iphone seems to take longer for bars to drop when it loses service but it *may* have had the slightest edge out of the 2. That maybe just in my head because everyone always says the Iphone has such great reception and I haven't really heard the same about the HOS, but if there is a difference it was very small.
The HOS and IP4 definitely had a huge advantage over the SGS3 in reception however.
Not a comparison but it's worth noting that all four phones GPS worked great for tracking our walks and bike rides we went on while we were there. Mine took less than ten seconds to lock onto GPS using MapMyRide app.