I've noticed that in the last few days when I turn on WiFi I still get cell data.
I have WiFi then 4g icon with 2-3 bars. Wasn't like that before.
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What were you doing when this occurred? Might you have been in the middle of downloading something so your phone waited instead of doing a handoff?
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I have noticed this same issue. I usually just turn off the data portion when using wifi, but I am curious as to why this occurs
lawlauder said:
I have noticed this same issue. I usually just turn off the data portion when using wifi, but I am curious as to why this occurs
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Yeah there is some trouble...I tried to use it both too, (wifi to talk via skype) and the connect was awful
Also I have some troubles with wifi when battery under 30% - very bad connect, but when I plug in charger it getting much better connect
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What were you doing when this occurred? Might you have been in the middle of downloading something so your phone waited instead of doing a handoff?
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Nothing really just chillingin the forums or browsing. The phone used to automatically turn off cell data when on WiFi and I might of disabled something somewhere but I've never seen such a option...
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My data plan usage is increasing little by little. I use the wi-Fi ONLY. I had 98 mb then all of the sudden I get a text message saying that I used over 65%(139mb). Then I woke up from 7 hour sleep, and it increased to 147mb...
I do not have unlimited data plan. I have 200mb plan. I'm scared that it will go over my limit. I don't want to pay extra 15$ for it when I'm not even using my plan.
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WiFi only and network disabled.
Help..
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Personally, I would try flashing a new ROM and if the situation is the same, just go into airplane mode...
ThEiiNoCeNT said:
Personally, I would try flashing a new ROM and if the situation is the same, just go into airplane mode...
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What does airplane mode do??
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It disables the radio
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It disables the radio
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does that mean i can't call or text, or receive?
Right, I have a thought. Do you leave wifi on all the time? It may be going to sleep when the screen turns off. Settings> Wireless & network > wifi settings push menu and go to advanced settings and change the sleep policy.
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P00t said:
does that mean i can't call or text, or receive?
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Yep but you can still use WiFi
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Also If the wifi is going to sleep when the screen goes off it could be background data. You can turn that off in accounts and sync
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Also If the wifi is going to sleep when the screen goes off it could be background data. You can turn that off in accounts and sync
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my wifi never goes to sleep, i enabled it to "stay on forever"
and if my phone did sleep and my wifi was turned off, it shouldnt use the background data because mobile network is off and there is no other way for my phone to connect to any other network.
ill try flashing to a new rom if my Data plan increases again.
I was just wondering if any of you guys has experienced losing GPS signal and voice signal while GPS is used? I have had this happened to me several times. I was driving with GPS on and suddenly the phone just lost all signals. It'd not be that bad if the issue came from poor signal, but after that, it never regained signal. I had to manually turn on and off all the signal switches several times before it could reconnect.
Was there a triangle in the upper left side of the notification bar?
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I don't think there was, the phone just lost signal completely. And it happened on 4.0.3 as well as 4.0.4
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I don't think there was, the phone just lost signal completely. And it happened on 4.0.3 as well as 4.0.4
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I would definitely recommend getting a replacement Phone, assuming you still can. If not, then you can try 1) restarting the phone 2) wiping and starting from new (backup first!)
I wish I could but I'm way out of the 30 days replacement. And I think it's software related as it doesn't happen that often and when it works it works real well too.
And I always wipe completely before installing new rom, but it still happened on 2 kernels. I'm thinking it maybe heat related as I was mounting it on the dash. Any thoughts?
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I wish I could but I'm way out of the 30 days replacement. And I think it's software related as it doesn't happen that often and when it works it works real well too.
And I always wipe completely before installing new rom, but it still happened on 2 kernels. I'm thinking it maybe heat related as I was mounting it on the dash. Any thoughts?
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It's very unlikely that its because of the dash. But you can check to see if the GPS locks at all by downloading an app called "GPS Test" by Chart cross Limited from the Play Store and see if the GPS even works. Good luck.
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My replacement HOX's wifi is fluctuating a lot. Do our phones suffer from the same wifi problems as the international version?
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No. The international version has antennas in a different spot than the evita.
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My replacement HOX's wifi is fluctuating a lot. Do our phones suffer from the same wifi problems as the international version?
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It can, but you basically have to use the back casing as a punching bag, and I suspect that you will probably crack the case before you cause the same issue.
When I turn vibration on under settings>sounds whenever the phone vibrates, it rattles pretty loudly. Maybe there is stuff loose back there and that's why my wifi fluctuates a lot.
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Wasn't there someone who had rattling with vibration on? MetalHead maybe?
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My replacement HOX's wifi is fluctuating a lot. Do our phones suffer from the same wifi problems as the international version?
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There's something wrong with my wifi too (Rogers HTC One X) -- wifi signal strength is typically about 20dB worse (that's 100 times less signal power for those of you who aren't familiar with decibels) compared to my laptop or blackberry in the same location, and I get "not in range" on the phone when my laptop has 3-4 out of 5 bars. It doesn't seem like exactly the same problem as the international version, since I can't make it better by pressing the case by the camera and volume up, but it does seem like some kind of hardware/antenna issue.
(FWIW, I'm on version 1.94 software (Rogers OTA update), and I've selected "2.4GHz only", and "best wifi" in the settings)
I've noticed that mine fluctuates when I hold it in different ways. It's like the iPhone 4 grip problem when it first came out but this seems worse. I barely have to touch the bottom of the phone for the signal to drop. Also, I noticed that sometimes I can't connect to the same wifi hot spots as other phones / other devices I've had. It's like it doesn't have the same range.
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Wasn't there someone who had rattling with vibration on? MetalHead maybe?
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Yeah, there was something wrong with the motor so I exchanged it. My current one had a LOUD motor when I first got it that sorta sounded like a rattle but it has settled in it seems. It's perfect now.
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Yeah, there was something wrong with the motor so I exchanged it. My current one had a LOUD motor when I first got it that sorta sounded like a rattle but it has settled in it seems. It's perfect now.
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Mine is really loud.
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I've noticed that mine fluctuates when I hold it in different ways. It's like the iPhone 4 grip problem when it first came out but this seems worse. I barely have to touch the bottom of the phone for the signal to drop. Also, I noticed that sometimes I can't connect to the same wifi hot spots as other phones / other devices I've had. It's like it doesn't have the same range.
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Same here. As I type this I am watching the Wifi oscillate between one and four 'bars'. The other day the hox was dropping the connection altogether and I was constantly switching between 3g and wifi
When I first got my phone it would get into a cycle of losing Wi-Fi connection, switching to data, then back to Wi-Fi repeatedly. It kept doing this until I turned Wi-Fi off for about 5 minutes. It seems to not happen as much on a different ROM than stock.
This happened even with good signal. Also I don't have any signal issues, signal strength is always as strong as it should be.
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I had Wifi issues when I first got my One X where I would get weak signal or it would constantly drop. Also, when i would go in to or out of a Wifi hot spot I would lose data for a few minutes unless I toggled airplane mode. Once I unlocked my phone and out on CleanRom, some of the issues seemed to be resolved. Now I am on CR 4.5 Dev and AT&T 2.20 radio and I don't have the issues anymore.
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My replacement HOX's wifi is fluctuating a lot. Do our phones suffer from the same wifi problems as the international version?
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My wifi doesn't fluctuate, I just have bad signal all the time ;_;
It's like my radio sleeps sometimes. This screen shot shows no data. Once I wake my phone data reconnects. I don't think this is caused by no signal.
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Looks like you live in a so so signal area, the closer it is to green then the greater your signal is. I would think that's an issue with the towers in your area cuz as you know the signal fluctuates often even while sleep.
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Thanks. I don't understand why it shows no signal when there was signal. As soon as I woke the phone it reconnected to the tower. There's a delay when it switches from 4g, 3g and 1x....This long area of red was probably the phone stuck in the delay between switching? While trying to submit this post I just lost data in a strong 4G area..... I don't get it.
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How often within a day/week does this occur? That's still odd behavior that you lose signal or notice signal degradation while sleeping.
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This happens once or twice per day. Seems to happen in areas with less than great signal, that's why I think it is maybe getting stuck in the transition between 3g and 1x. No idea why it stays stuck once I move to an area with better signal.... Seems like the radio is sleeping until I wake the device.
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It happened to me before. Try to go to flight/airplane mode and back. It should reset everything. I also sometimes press and hold the home button , then remove all applications and go to ram memory and clear it.
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That does work but we should not have to do that in the first place. Hopefully a update will fix the data problems.
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This happens once or twice per day. Seems to happen in areas with less than great signal, that's why I think it is maybe getting stuck in the transition between 3g and 1x. No idea why it stays stuck once I move to an area with better signal.... Seems like the radio is sleeping until I wake the device.
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Are you stock? if no, what ROM are you running? Are you rooted? what apps are installed.
If you have CWM recovery, i would try to wipe cache and reboot, see if it helps at all?? if you don't have much installed, i would say do a full system restore...
one other thing, are you losing data, ie; not getting text and or phone calls? Also, check to see if you have any battery savers checked. Might be just a method of saving battery by shutting off data until it is needed.
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Are you stock? if no, what ROM are you running? Are you rooted? what apps are installed.
If you have CWM recovery, i would try to wipe cache and reboot, see if it helps at all?? if you don't have much installed, i would say do a full system restore...
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I am on stock not even rooted. Phone is a week and a half old.... I am willing to wipe data if you think it would help.
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one other thing, are you losing data, ie; not getting text and or phone calls? Also, check to see if you have any battery savers checked. Might be just a method of saving battery by shutting off data until it is needed.
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As far as I know I am not missing phone calls or texts. Power saver is turned off. I am basically running the phone the way it came brand new (not many apps, no root, no unlock.... Yet).
Thanks for the replies. Any chance a factory reset would help? My mute/vibrate functions in settings do not mute the phone either... Still get audible notifications and phone rings like normal. Unrelated to the data issue but still weird for a new stock phone.
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I'm not going to lie. I don't know if it will help or not. But if you are stock and got nothing to lose it would give it a shot. Can't hurt? Also, as others have said, it sounds ds like it could be because of signal strength. A lot of variables though.
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Data wipe did not fix the mute problem. I am very annoyed. Will see how my radio acts today after the wipe.
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Just found a post on Verizon's forum regarding this problem. Apparently I was right when I said there was a issue when switching from 4g/3g/1x.
51. Re: Galaxy S3 Worst Cell Service Of Any Phone EVER!
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Wildman Aug 18, 2012 3:43 PM (in response to BigClyde)
Now before I say this I want to make it clear that I am not representing Verizon or Samsung in any way with this post, I am just updating the users on what I have identified from the test of my device on this reported issue.... So with that said you can take this accordingly..
Ok everyone about the reported connection issues reported, I recently have been able to duplicate the signaling issue reported on my S3 and it appears to be miner for me at the moment but I can say that it is present.. I recently attempted to isolate the bug and I learned that when I placed it in my test rig to monitor the device in the weakest area in my house the software would temporarily powers down the radio for a few seconds that causes the device to loose all connections (Wifi, Bluetooth, 4G and some times also the network connection), this only happens in a weak connection area and it does appear it could be a software related bug with how the radio drivers handles switching the connection from one connection to another.
From the test results this does not appear to be a hardware issue but I do agree that this could be a pain for a user on the border of a 3G and 4G connection because any connection change causes a crash or radio and force restart.
I have reported this to CS and it appears to be a situation that is being looked into and a solution is possibly in the works... Eventho this isnt a major issue for me at this time, I hope to see a update to address this soon.
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It's like my radio sleeps sometimes. This screen shot shows no data. Once I wake my phone data reconnects. I don't think this is caused by no signal.
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check any settings you may have done in the "Profiles" option? is that on a option in settings on the stock rom, lol, cant really remember
What a joke. This really irritates me.
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This is frustrating. I have lost signal now two times and needed a reboot to get it back. When I did, I was not only losing data, but phone also. I would get this barrage of texts and missed calls.
I am rooted and unlocked, so there in itself could lie a problem, but it comes without warning and the phone appears to be working. Would the SIM card really effect that?
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Does anyone else have an issue where the LTE signal is not reestablished after a phone call? I have to reboot my phone to get the LTE signal back, otherwise it remains on HSPA+. I am in an area with full LTE signal (all bars). This is driving me crazy...
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Does anyone else have an issue where the LTE signal is not reestablished after a phone call? I have to reboot my phone to get the LTE signal back, otherwise it remains on HSPA+. I am in an area with full LTE signal (all bars). This is driving me crazy...
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Carrier is?
Sorry...AT&T
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Sorry...AT&T
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When a call gets routed through it uses the HSPA+ or HSPA or EDGE network to handle calls currently LTE does not do this so it may take awhile to reestablish your connection thou lte again
It NEVER reestablishes the connection though, stays on H.
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It NEVER reestablishes the connection though, stays on H.
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I have no idea then, after about 30 seconds on T-Mobile the LTE returns again after being on H
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It NEVER reestablishes the connection though, stays on H.
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How long is NEVER? 10mins or 3hrs or what?
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I have no idea then, after about 30 seconds on T-Mobile the LTE returns again after being on H
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Hours, days, etc. unless I reboot the phone.
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Hours, days, etc. unless I reboot the phone.
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Have you just tried throwing it in airplane mode for a second to kill the radio and see if it pulls and LTE connection after? I'm on AT&T and every once in awhile I'll have to do that when switching between cell towers while driving.
hmmm... that's strange, you shouldn't have to do anything. mine goes on H during the call, as soon as end the call it immediately (about a second) switches back to LTE. I'm not rooted or anything. everything is stock.
not sure if this will help but try doing factory reset and clear cache and such?
it would be easier if you gave us more details.
Custom ROM? kernel? rooted?
Everything is completely stock, never rooted etc. Seems to be slightly improved today. It has actually come back into LTE a couple times without rebooting. I've also tried the airplane trick a couple times and that has worked on occasion as well. Still hit or miss so I may just RMA it. Appreciate everyone's help!
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Don't mean to necro this thread, but just looking for some additional input.
RMAd my device and the new one exhibits the same behavior which leads me to believe it's the network in my area. Anyone ever experience the same thing especially in area with new LTE?
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