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Sensation reception is useless

We all love our sensation but one thing we cant cope is the bad reception i tried all network provider its same htc sensation gets %30 less signal than any other phone example when my xperia x10 gets -58 db sensation gets -99db.so sent to warranty first they just sent it back saying updated software which i think new radio so sent back straight away so now they changed system mod(board) still same bad reception i do not know why but htc sensation has a bad design for signal its ok whom lives areas where you get full signal all the time but when you go areas signal not as strong you really feel that with sensation.
has anyone one got way round to it?

I have the same problem because I live in a rural part of England and very rarely get full signal at my house which makes my phone slightly redundant. I would also love a fix for this
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I have to agree to a point. My old desire when sat in the same room at home has a stronger signal than my sensation as did my old Sony X10. A bit disappointing really but not the be all and end all I suppose. The other thing that annoys me is when my Desire hangs constantly on HSDPA as opposed to 3G, my sensation bounces between the two all the time giving a poor data connection at times.
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Don't have a problem with my phone, it certainly is better for 3G/WiFi than my old Wildfire
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I noticed that when I hold my phone a certain way, I lose 2 to 3 reception bars..drives me crazy
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May help a bit.
My Desire also have better signal than my Sensation XE, below is what I did to my Sensation it improve a bit the signal bar.
But it seem does't not work with my wifi signal since I using the custom kernel. It help improve my signal before, although I am not sure if really the custom kernel help the wifi signal. Just not work with wifi right now.
If the custom kernel really help the wifi maybe if developer's may also can make to boost the network signal.
the Not Brilliant method:
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The Ugly Method will see add 1 more bar.
*Please make sure you tape all the wire so it will not short circuit the phone. But not cover the contact point(gold/yellow circuit between the phone and cover)
I still can fine other's idea to replace the wire, you may have other's brilliant idea. I thought of replacing with conductor tape but don't have time to find on store.
Most important note:
I will not responsible whatever happen to you or your phone if you following my method. Because I not done any scientific study, research or mathematically calculation on doing this method. Especially the radiation or any effect to other's radio or/and medical tools or/and lightning or/and gas station and what so ever.
You may click the thank button if it help you, so other's will know this method work.

what the worst thing is HTC is refuted the issue they say get new sim or use your phone gms only!!whats the point having smartphone and not to be able to use internet anyhow going to consumer dispute court to get my money back from them their aftersales is useless

when i hold it a certain way i lose my reception...seems liek im using an iphone 4! lolol

Answer: Yes it is useless.
Nothing much you can do other than put up with it, this phone is pretty much a mini PC anyway.
At least my old Nokia 6310 had better than perfect reception, it was like a satellite phone lol. I went on camp somewhere with the whole year at highschool, and I was the only only person that had reception. Ultimate Win!
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XaQi 101 said:
My Desire also have better signal than my Sensation XE, below is what I did to my Sensation it improve a bit the signal bar.
But it seem does't not work with my wifi signal since I using the custom kernel. It help improve my signal before, although I am not sure if really the custom kernel help the wifi signal. Just not work with wifi right now.
If the custom kernel really help the wifi maybe if developer's may also can make to boost the network signal.
the Not Brilliant method:
The Ugly Method will see add 1 more bar.
*Please make sure you tape all the wire so it will not short circuit the phone. But not cover the contact point(gold/yellow circuit between the phone and cover)
I still can fine other's idea to replace the wire, you may have other's brilliant idea. I thought of replacing with conductor tape but don't have time to find on store.
Most important note:
I will not responsible whatever happen to you or your phone if you following my method. Because I not done any scientific study, research or mathematically calculation on doing this method. Especially the radiation or any effect to other's radio or/and medical tools or/and lightning or/and gas station and what so ever.
You may click the thank button if it help you, so other's will know this method work.
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Does this really wor? Have you trie with and without in a certain spot? How many bars improvement do you get?

taffytim said:
Does this really wor? Have you trie with and without in a certain spot? How many bars improvement do you get?
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As I write on my post, it definitely will not resolve the problem but will improve the signal. But it help me a lot, I usually do this trick/mod on other's devices like tablet, bluetooth adapter or wifi adapter. Using "Ugly Method" usually get add about 1 to 2 bar. The "Not Brilliant" will just increased a bit about 1-5db I guess. If not problem for you, you can make the "Not Brilliant" on the outside much longer it will be increased more. I usually used shred wire from broken pc Power Supply, wire with hair thick but can band. But make sure the phone contact the wire. But make sure the wire not to thick or to much, because you will have problem to close the case.

so far we have no solution for this annoying issue.has anyone got any one series phone do they have same issue?

cihanleanne said:
so far we have no solution for this annoying issue.has anyone got any one series phone do they have same issue?
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As quoted in a previous thread, I owned a ONE S for a period of 2 days. The reception was one of many reasons for the return.
I have to be honest and say I've never had any signal issues with my XE....(Touch-Wood).
Regards.

I've not noticed my Sensation being any different to any other phone I've owned over the past two years.
I do live in a strong signal area though, and work in a building with a cell tower on the roof

I have no issues with my Sensation XE. I'd have even better reception if I wanted to pay for expensive Telstra

I did not notice issue either.

I've had 3 HTC Incredible S phones and now have an XE, all of them had or have worse mobile signal reception than my earlier Desire. My XE loses reception here at home on O2 depending on where I am in the house, my son's older Samsung Galaxy which is also on O2 doesn't have a signal problem.
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Rusty! said:
I've not noticed my Sensation being any different to any other phone I've owned over the past two years.
I do live in a strong signal area though, and work in a building with a cell tower on the roof
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when i went to uk couple weeks ago stayed in bolton reception was ok but when i went wales gosh none it does depend on area but generally sensation get %30 less than any other phone like when i testes my wifes xperia ray was getting -60db my sensation was -100db same area same network these are the issues i think HTC thinkd we all live where you get strong signals than obliously we wouldnt notice

davebugyi said:
I did not notice issue either.
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no you wouldnt notice any issue unless you live area where signal is bit low just do
*#*#4636#*#* compare the db other brands

cihanleanne said:
but when i went wales gosh none
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That's normal for everything there

Nexus 5 GPS issues?

Is anyone else else having issues with their GPS? I'm running stocked rooted and it takes my phone forever to get a lock from the birds. It doesn't matter if I'm inside or outside it takes 30-60 seconds for a lock which I think is ridiculous.
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mauricehall said:
Is anyone else else having issues with their GPS? I'm running stocked rooted and it takes my phone forever to get a lock from the birds. It doesn't matter if I'm inside or outside it takes 30-60 seconds for a lock which I think is ridiculous.
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You need to reevaluate.
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bluenote73 said:
You need to reevaluate.
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I fix 11/23 sats in max seconds, sometimes it fix up to 18 sats after 2/3 minutes...... Stock, without mods.. :good:

Do you have WiFi and aGPS location reporting off? It could slow down position locking.
Sometimes my Nexus 4 GPS antenna hangs though, a restart and locking on via Maps helps for some reason, I use the app GPS Stats to see how many satellites the phone's seeing, but I guess you've done that. Maybe try out a tracking SW like Locus or something and see if the phone remains locked when moving for a longer period of time like going home from work, if GPS signal constantly goes away I'd recommend contacting Google on the issue. They'll either confirm to look into it or offer a replacement.

These are that stats I'm getting with GPS status seems very off to me... I'm probably going to contact sprint about this later today or tomorrow
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I'm having a problem with GPS on mine as well. I play Ingress which is a location-based game made by Niantic (owned by Google). I have a lot of experience playing this game back to January on my Nexus 4 and have also played on my Nexus 7. The Nexus 5 is slow to lock and has much greater error than the Nexus 4 as reported by GPS Status when I am holding phones side-by-side. It seems to really perform worse under non-ideal conditions (inside a car, near tall buildings, bad weather). It seems to lose lock or otherwise have greater error under those conditions especially. I have heard of people who have no apparent issues though so it could be my device is just defective.

swoon_ said:
I'm having a problem with GPS on mine as well. I play Ingress which is a location-based game made by Niantic (owned by Google). I have a lot of experience playing this game back to January on my Nexus 4 and have also played on my Nexus 7. The Nexus 5 is slow to lock and has much greater error than the Nexus 4 as reported by GPS Status when I am holding phones side-by-side. It seems to really perform worse under non-ideal conditions (inside a car, near tall buildings, bad weather). It seems to lose lock or otherwise have greater error under those conditions especially. I have heard of people who have no apparent issues though so it could be my device is just defective.
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+1 under the exact same conditions. Really pissed me off blowing through L8's and "all resonators missed" pops up when I'm on top of the goddamn thing.
I came from the Note2 and noticed that the GPS kind of acts like a kid who didn't get the tootsie roll so just acts like a lil punk and doesn't listen or do what they're told. Nothing as horrible as the old Captivate fiasco, but nowhere near other devices I've owned. I'm guessing an update or two can fix it (along with the camera and signal drop issues)
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faction and location?
Feelin' smurfy in central Florida

I also have problems with the GPS.
The satellites are really long to fix (approx 5min, even with aGPS), and the signal drop quickly.
Only way to play Ingress : wifi positioning.
It is impossible for me to use Navigation in car

same here
mauricehall said:
Is anyone else else having issues with their GPS? I'm running stocked rooted and it takes my phone forever to get a lock from the birds. It doesn't matter if I'm inside or outside it takes 30-60 seconds for a lock which I think is ridiculous.
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Same problem here on pure stock, no root. In car navigation is useless. Gps status toolbox is able to make it fix for a little while but signal is lost again after a (few) minute(s). Only thing I might have done out of the ordinary is switch from dalvik to ART. Gonna revert that just to see. Will report.
Reverting tot dalvik doesn't Fix it. so as a test, unlocked bootloader and reflahed stock firmware from google page so it was pristine again. No joy, no GPS lock.

This with stock without mod.....

There are some various threads also on the issue. I have found that the GPS appears to improve when I applied some pressure to the area below where the camera is on the back. The GPS antena is here and there is some hypothesis that the antenna may not be secured properly resulting in the poor performance. I was able to have better results playing Ingress after doing this. Per GPS Status, performance still not as good as my N4 so will probably RMA soon. It would be interesting if some having the issue tries applying the pressure to see if there is any improvement.

Mine doesn't see catch any signals on ART.
on dalvik it works but very slow compared to a S4
A S4 locks on 11sats in 10 secs indoors.
My N5 sees 2 in the first minute then just sits there.
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eustilou said:
Mine doesn't see catch any signals on ART.
on dalvik it works but very slow compared to a S4
A S4 locks on 11sats in 10 secs indoors.
My N5 sees 2 in the first minute then just sits there.
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More info... I have a US model and I am currently in Europe.
I compared mine side by side with a european model (D821) and it locked on much faster... 10-15 seconds.
I compared the gps.conf files and they are identical.

Someone started a thread one Google's forum. I suggest everyone add their post to that list so Google can see it and address the issue.
http://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/nexus/EkllXr0ZlZM
I'll test applying pressure to the back of the phone later but that's obviously not a long term solution.
EDIT: Applying pressure didn't seem to help.
I was on ART and couldn't get a lock. Switched back to Dalvik and it locked right away the first time. Turned off all GPS/Wifi/etc and waited 5 minutes. Second time could not get a lock whatsoever so I did the usual wipe cache/etc and uninstalled the GPS test app and re-installed and still nothing.
Calling Google.
EDIT#2: RMA on the way. Google support could not confirm whether other users were reporting problems. Rather than wait for a software fix I'm taking my chances with a new device.

no issues for me
Locks instantly using T-Mobile in lost Vegas. Had sprint with last 2 htc's. Was always hit and miss. Sucked

eustilou said:
More info... I have a US model and I am currently in Europe.
I compared mine side by side with a european model (D821) and it locked on much faster... 10-15 seconds.
I compared the gps.conf files and they are identical.
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I own a german bought 32GB D821 with serious gps issues too so that theory doesn't fly.

Same issue here as well. As an Ingress player, this is extremely frustrating. It loses its GPS lock way too frequently.

Try 2G Network mode on Mobile Network Settings
Actually, this problem persists since Nexus 4 with Jelly Bean jwr66y update. GPS Status app show me that my GPS got really weak signals when I'm in 3G networks, but it got really strong signals and work very well when I choose 2G network mode in 'Mobile Network Settings'. I wonder is it the some problem with you guys? If it is, then it's absolutely Android bug, not hardware issue.

panunggal said:
Actually, this problem persists since Nexus 4 with Jelly Bean jwr66y update. GPS Status app show me that my GPS got really weak signals when I'm in 3G networks, but it got really strong signals and work very well when I choose 2G network mode in 'Mobile Network Settings'. I wonder is it the some problem with you guys? If it is, then it's absolutely Android bug, not hardware issue.
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Not sure I agree. My nexus 4 is rock solid with GPS on any network mode (LTE/H+/2G) and always has been. Even in areas where my signal isn't strong the GPS wouldn't ever falter.
I've posted my personal findings at http://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/nexus/EkllXr0ZlZM now that I have my RMA device in hand also and can do side-by-side comparisons.

screenshots from GPS Status on nexus 4
That's kinda strange. What version of Android do you installed in your N4? Here 2 screenshots of GPS Status on my N4. First, I use 3G network (as you can see on the signal bar at the top of the screen) and waited about 3 minutes outdoor under clear sky. Weak signals. Then, still standing on the same spot, I switch to 2G Network and look at those bars, and the time it needs to get fix, work perfectly.

Shield Tablet experiencing terrible WiFi

Having some bad WiFi with my new Shield tablet.. Where my Note 3 or Tab S have full bars my Shield only gets 2 of 4... Low link speed too. I was hoping it was a software issue but not so sure anymore..... When holding the tablet in portrait, my hands hold the bottom part of the tablet, moving my hands increases the bars and then move them back and they go away. I guess the WiFi antenna is down there? Either way, it is easily blocked. Anyone else notice this?

there's a big thread over at geforce.com about it. you're not alone. 2.4 is OK-ish though still weaker than my other devices but 5ghz is terrible. where my note3 gets 108mbit 1 floor down the shield tab gets 6-12mbit and sometimes no signal at all. heck, same floor as the router and 1 room over with 1 wall between and 15ft total distance and it only manages a meager 24mbit connection when my note3 is at 150mbit and my surface3 is 300mbit. hoping its not a hardware design flaw and is just poor drivers or firmware.

Yeah its a shame really. I wouldn't expect bad WiFi signal really with any device released recently.

Maybe they lowered the mW output of the wifi to help mitigate battery drain from the gpu. That can usually be fixed with firmware, for about a 3% hit on battery life.
If antenna related, a power increase will not help much if at all. Only fix then would be a production revision.

Well I guess I will hope for the first possibility.

I might be a bit under on the battery life hit. Maybe 5% is closer. I hope so too, since was going to get the 32gb model when released.

Here's a look at Note 3, Tab S, and Shield all sitting on the router. Note the link speed on all.
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It could be that your 802.11ac router is using the wireless-b/g standard instead of n

Goodeman said:
It could be that your 802.11ac router is using the wireless-b/g standard instead of n
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Does the Shield not support ac? Dang, I thought I read it did before I bought it.

Nope only up to n

There is already a way to increase the power with the wifi optimization setting and reports are minimal if any improvement. Looking more like an antenna issue, but always a chance something else. Need to get a response from Nvidia. If they go silent on the matter, that would be bad.
Wonder if the 32GB will have the issue as well? A delay in the 32GB (beginning of September) would suggest a design revision might be in place.

I just got mine today and the wifi is pretty bad on this compared to my note 3. I tried running a test by walking away from my router with both the note 3 and the shield tablet. Eventually the shield lost communication with my router while the note 3 still was able to acquire at at least 2 -3 bars. I was really looking forward to this tablet but if I can't go to another room without losing connection then it's pretty pointless.

Damn it. This is unbearable. I can't even play modern combat 5 which requires constant connection. It keeps disconnecting.
Running wifi analyzer I noticed the connection jumps a lot. I would love to open her up to see if it's a connection issue but not sure how to. Have to wait for a tear down.

May I ask which router you have ? I had a lot of issues with one particular brand- Netgear, which is very picky in terms of devices . It works with Mac retina, but it did not work with my Vaio , Now I am using cisco ea4500 and all of my problem gone, I might be wrong but it always good to check in on other wifi-s

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May I ask which router you have ? I had a lot of issues with one particular brand- Netgear, which is very picky in terms of devices . It works with Mac retina, but it did not work with my Vaio , Now I am using cisco ea4500 and all of my problem gone, I might be wrong but it always good to check in on other wifi-s
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Netgear r7000 Nighthawk. Shield tablet is my only problem device on the network.
My Tab S does great in the same spots. This morning has been actually great though, not as good as my Tab S but it also costs a lot more so probably expected. Here's 2 speed tests for comparison. First one is Tab S and second is Shield .

Mine works fine with an older netgear router. The classic 802.11g 2.4Ghz. Same speeds as my nexus 5 gets pretty much everywhere in my house. I don't use the streaming feature though so can't comment on it.
An nVidia guy did respond to a report of that 24Mbps thing. Maybe that bug affects more than just the WiFi Analytics app.
https://forums.geforce.com/default/topic/764386/shield-tablet/horrible-wi-fi-performance/10/

Evo_Shift said:
Mine works fine with an older netgear router. The classic 802.11g 2.4Ghz. Same speeds as my nexus 5 gets pretty much everywhere in my house. I don't use the streaming feature though so can't comment on it.
An nVidia guy did respond to a report of that 24Mbps thing. Maybe that bug affects more than just the WiFi Analytics app.
https://forums.geforce.com/default/topic/764386/shield-tablet/horrible-wi-fi-performance/10/
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In my case, my issue is more range. The shield has a weaker wifi.

So I received a replacement last week which had slightly better signal than my original but it had a much warmer yellowish screen so there was no way I'm going to keep that. I figured then that this has to be a hardware thing so I opened up the back and made sure all the connection for the radio was properly seated. And to my surprise it made my wifi on par with the replacement and with my Samsung note 2014. I don't recommend you open yours of course but maybe there's potential QA issue with these tablets? I recommend maybe you get a replacement from Nvidia and hopefully you get one with better wifi.
Top is note 2014, bottom left original shield, bottom right replacement.
Before
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[Q] Cell reception and WiFi issues

I hope by posting this here we can find an answer to a problem that a lot of OPO users are complaining of. the device has a terrible cell and WiFI reception when compared to other devices in the same area and using the same wifi networks.
Cell reception:
I`m on a 4G network . however i find that i have 0-1 bar almost all of the time in areas where i used to have 3-4 bars. and as a result i constantly get missed calls notifications. I read that switching to 3G in the phone settings might help, and that`s when i ran into the second problem. Switching to 3G will indeed give me better reception 3-4 bars but then the whole connection becomes erratic, and the phone will go from 3 bars to ``no connection`` back to 4 bars 4 to 5 times every minutes and i will lose mobile data totally on 3G.
WiFi reception and connection:
I have a secure 802.1x connection at work spread over 2 buildings. the phone will connect to 1 only and will not connect to the same network in the other building at all. both have the same SSID , settings, and login information. but the phone will just cycle between `connecting`` to `` secured with 802.1x``. I tried all roms available and the only ROM that worked was `Gummy ROM``. only when using that ROM, is the phone able to connect to that WiFi network!! and i have no explanation for that.
All these problems I mentioned above are consistent across all roms and there seems to be no answer from OPO support or on the official forum for the phone. I hope someone can provide me with a solution or an answer to this.
Thank you all

asem said:
I hope by posting this here we can find an answer to a problem that a lot of OPO users are complaining of. the device has a terrible cell and WiFI reception when compared to other devices in the same area and using the same wifi networks.
Cell reception:
I`m on a 4G network . however i find that i have 0-1 bar almost all of the time in areas where i used to have 3-4 bars. and as a result i constantly get missed calls notifications. I read that switching to 3G in the phone settings might help, and that`s when i ran into the second problem. Switching to 3G will indeed give me better reception 3-4 bars but then the whole connection becomes erratic, and the phone will go from 3 bars to ``no connection`` back to 4 bars 4 to 5 times every minutes and i will lose mobile data totally on 3G.
WiFi reception and connection:
I have a secure 802.1x connection at work spread over 2 buildings. the phone will connect to 1 only and will not connect to the same network in the other building at all. both have the same SSID , settings, and login information. but the phone will just cycle between `connecting`` to `` secured with 802.1x``. I tried all roms available and the only ROM that worked was `Gummy ROM``. only when using that ROM, is the phone able to connect to that WiFi network!! and i have no explanation for that.
All these problems I mentioned above are consistent across all roms and there seems to be no answer from OPO support or on the official forum for the phone. I hope someone can provide me with a solution or an answer to this.
Thank you all
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I'm getting the same problems.
Where signal is always strong, it seems to work OK, but with weaker signal it just screws up!
Its really pissing me off as i've take the phone to work for the first time, just to find out I cannot get any signal there, where by my HTC Desire worked just fine.

Also getting exactly the same problems. It is impossible to use OPO where signal is not so strong although other phones work flawlessly. Reception signal strength goes up and down all the time from full to none bars. Data connection is inconsistent.
Anyone with weak inconsistent signal strength vote here: https://jira.cyanogenmod.org/browse/BACON-132

I still hope that what we are experiencing is due to firmware and drivers issues that can be solved by the developers on XDA. However, the complete silence by OnePlus and Cyanogen regarding this issue despite the number of people complaining, makes me worried that it's a bigger hardware issue that they are trying to avoid and move into "we'll fix it in the next version of the phone” kind of scenario.
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asem said:
I still hope that what we are experiencing is due to firmware and drivers issues that can be solved by the developers on XDA. However, the complete silence by OnePlus and Cyanogen regarding this issue despite and number of people complaining makes me worried that it's a bigger hardware issue that they are trying to avoid and move into "we'll fix it in the next version of the phone” kind of scenario.
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That would be bad scenario. I hope that it is just software problems. But seeing how OnePlus deals with the problems I also have doubts.

I would say it's software baseband/modem and CM needs to step it up. My Nexus 5 has a better signal strength. But then Google has a much bigger development team than CM or One plus. My friend has the GS5 and it has the snapdragon 801 chip set and it has a much better signal strength.
So ether the One's antenna is not that great or it a software problem.
As you can see the controller is on chip.
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I don't have it as bad as some have posted so hope things get fixed for all.

Yeah. Many users are having problems with cell reception.
It's a shame.

My wife & I both using OPO international version, both of us facing poor signal & sound problem when we get them. Sound problem is currently handled by boosting the sound but frankly the sound is a bit deteriorated. The signal problem is better a bit now by installing oppo 7 radio. Hope the team can put more effort on the signal problem. It is phone!

I have this issue too, but I think this is a hardware problem, because CM and OPO teams do nothing for fix this problem, and Chao Chen at CM Jira says that this poor signal is a normal... I realy think about selling my OPO and buy another phone...

I have pretty crappy signal on mine too (London UK). Signal strength fluctuates wildly even by moving the phone in a different direction. I've reverted to the previous modem via a flash .zip and things seem a bit better but it's early days. I would have thought that number 1 priority for a phone is that it actually works well as...well, a phone!
Disappointed that the 'giant killer' tag doesn't quite match the reality.
I sincerely hope there are improvements but I have my doubts.

virgopunk said:
I have pretty crappy signal on mine too (London UK). Signal strength fluctuates wildly even by moving the phone in a different direction. I've reverted to the previous modem via a flash .zip and things seem a bit better but it's early days. I would have thought that number 1 priority for a phone is that it actually works well as...well, a phone!
Disappointed that the 'giant killer' tag doesn't quite match the reality.
I sincerely hope there are improvements but I have my doubts.
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I don't have this problem on O2 uk wonder if its anything to do with 4g which isn't supported on this network. Have any of you tried PAC rom.

This problem is really starting to be a major issue for me. I expected some improvement by now.
Does anyone know is this has been confirmed as a radio/kernel issue or a hardware issue (antennas maybe).

Does anyone else get lower signal bars than previous phone?

On my S7 Edge I always had near full bars. On this one(same sim card and service-cricket) I get lower bars but my speed is incredible and even faster than previous phone. I get a 8.84 MBPS Download and 3.95 MBPS upload which is on par considering Cricket limits to 8 MBPS. My bars are never full though or even close. Could this just be a firmware error?
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The one issue I'm having is constant drop of data ... playing online games I can see my ping range from 4 green lights to 2 Orange light a then back to 3 green.lovjt . It never stays in one spot which causes very bad lag...idk if this is an isolated issue...but I will reset the entire phone and such tonight to try and start "fresh" to see...

Opposite for me. Coming from LG v20, Wi-Fi and carrier speeds are much much better.
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johnwayne27 said:
On my S7 Edge I always had near full bars. On this one(same sim card and service-cricket) I get lower bars but my speed is incredible and even faster than previous phone. I get a 8.84 MBPS Download and 3.95 MBPS upload which is on par considering Cricket limits to 8 MBPS. My bars are never full though or even close. Could this just be a firmware error?
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The amount of bars really doesn't matter, it's your signal strength that matters. Look in about phone and status and you should see a range of -80 to -120 dBm. -80 being great and -120 being worse. Ever go to a football game or large concert and have "full bars" but a crap connection? The tower may be close but can't handle the amount of people connected. Sometimes they have COW's (Cell on wheels) that's set up to prevent this from happening at large events but still may affect you.
Anyways, the only issue I have is switching from WiFi to 4G it seems that my connection isn't that great until I turn on and off airplane mode.

You can get a app like signal check .... That will give you your connection in decibels..... That's the true bars ..... Sprint used to always show 1x as bars... You could a call and have no data
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car.los.7399 said:
Opposite for me. Coming from LG v20, Wi-Fi and carrier speeds are much much better.
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Same here, my V20's wifi and 4g reception was weak as hell. I'm consistently 1-3 bars higher and I've got signal in places I didn't quite have before.

Outbreak444 said:
The amount of bars really doesn't matter, it's your signal strength that matters. Look in about phone and status and you should see a range of -80 to -120 dBm. -80 being great and -120 being worse. Ever go to a football game or large concert and have "full bars" but a crap connection? The tower may be close but can't handle the amount of people connected. Sometimes they have COW's (Cell on wheels) that's set up to prevent this from happening at large events but still may affect you.
Anyways, the only issue I have is switching from WiFi to 4G it seems that my connection isn't that great until I turn on and off airplane mode.
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So then is this good? If so, ATT nesds a firmware update to correct the bars to reflect the signal. Btw thanks for letting me know that. Its a big relief lol I almost signed up for ATT's $90 plan. Glad I asked on here
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So then is this good? If so, ATT nesds a firmware update to correct the bars to reflect the signal
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-73 is a very good connection.
And as for your statement, not necessarily something AT&T will do. Here's an article for you:
https://www.google.com/amp/www.digi...-your-smartphone-mean-we-asked-an-expert/amp/

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-73 is a very good connection.
And as for your statement, not necessarily something AT&T will do. Here's an article for you:
https://www.google.com/amp/www.digi...-your-smartphone-mean-we-asked-an-expert/amp/
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That is an excellent article. Thanks for that!
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About the same to more bars on my s8+ then the s7e

Even that article has it, while being in the -7X range is really great signal, you "can" see signal near -50. I've wireless devices at locations that sit in the low -60s. So not having perfect bars is definitely understandable at -73.
Anyway you shoot it tho, the signal bars are worthless unless you get used to what they mean for your phone mfg.
This actually all blew up big with the antenna gate with apple (though I imagine many forget it now), where people would drop reception depending on how they held their phone. Their bars were worthless and you had to put the phone in a dev like mode to see it in dBm. Then you had a realistic idea of what was actually happening (if you were seeing signal drops or not.)
I remember putting my hand in the "death grip" and seeing normal bars on the iphone but you'd switch it over to read dBm and you'd do it and be at -119 to -120 which is bad. Would be -7x to -8x sitting with no one touching it.