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Verizon has narrowed down what caused the LTE outage and is fixing it

Thats about it... per their twitter account.

That's embarrassing.

Bobman54 said:
That's embarrassing.
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+1 definitely is... they could've had the decency to let users know that their service(s) were down ... this caused massive confusion :T

And they're not gonna tell us what the problem was?

Sounds like another sony. Atleast it didnt take nearly a week.
posted with my thunderbolt w/ 1x -_-

unlisted said:
Sounds like another sony. Atleast it didnt take nearly a week.
posted with my thunderbolt w/ 1x -_-
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lol im using the same thing for my sig while texting

j1k said:
+1 definitely is... they could've had the decency to let users know that their service(s) were down ... this caused massive confusion :T
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Funny thing is probably most of the confusion was with people who had rooted or flashed roms (at least that was my situation). Cause I've read a lot about people restoring old backups and other roms because they saw they were on 1x.

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Funny thing is probably most of the confusion was with people who had rooted or flashed roms (at least that was my situation). Cause I've read a lot about people restoring old backups and other roms because they saw they were on 1x.
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Yea, that happened to me too.. I had just flashed a new ROM earlier when I noticed it was happening.. wasn't sure what was going on so I called Verizon and didn't tell them I had flashed the ROM when they told me about the outage.

SDracis said:
Yea, that happened to me too.. I had just flashed a new ROM earlier when I noticed it was happening.. wasn't sure what was going on so I called Verizon and didn't tell them I had flashed the ROM when they told me about the outage.
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Good call. I almost did a restore then saw the news. Still might do a restore though because I'm using the CM7 pre-alpha and there is a terrible mic echo in calls.

did anyone check to make sure the towers are plugged in?
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I am pretty happy with the Virus Airborne ROM.. Flashed that this morning, also put adrynalyne kernel on it earlier for an overclock.. now just need the network back up so I can fully enjoy it..

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did anyone check to make sure the towers are plugged in?
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That guy running around on the rooftops plugging stuff in before the lightning strikes must have tripped an unplugged something.

bobman54 said:
that guy running around on the rooftops plugging stuff in before the lightning strikes must have tripped an unplugged something.
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1.21 gigawatts!

1. Unplug tower.
2. Wait 60 seconds.
3. Plug tower back in.
The router method works for several things in life, such as: routers, phone towers, cathode ray tubes, personal air conditioning units, churches, RROD'd 360s, and routers.

4G back up here in Phoenix, AZ. As of the last 10 minutes. Woo hoo! Was at 1x all day.

iamsupreme said:
4G back up here in Phoenix, AZ. As of the last 10 minutes. Woo hoo! Was at 1x all day.
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I just tried it here in Newport Beach CA, 4G is still down... still 1x... switching back to 3G.

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4G back up here in Phoenix, AZ. As of the last 10 minutes. Woo hoo! Was at 1x all day.
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Can not confirm 4G back up in Phoenix. Just rebooted and still on 1x.

Still only 1x in Milwaukee
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RossLH said:
1. Unplug tower.
2. Wait 60 seconds.
3. Plug tower back in.
The router method works for several things in life, such as: routers, phone towers, cathode ray tubes, personal air conditioning units, churches, RROD'd 360s, and routers.
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LOL! Please explain the Churches part...haha.

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LOL! Please explain the Churches part...haha.
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Churches are the place of worship for the Catholic and Christian religions.
Fun fact: churches float. Similar to very small rocks.

Better 4G Speeds?

Is it possible to edit the build.prop file like the on the Inspire 4G to achieve better speeds?

Lol this should be in general... And inspire? This is the infuse forums
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hoofadoo said:
Lol this should be in general... And inspire? This is the infuse forums
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He said "like" on the inspire...
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He said "like" on the inspire...
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actually, he said, "like the on". LOL!

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actually, he said, "like the on". LOL!
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My bad... It still should be in general
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I apologize if I put it in the wrong forum, but I didn't think that editing the build.prop file or regulating 4G speeds that AT&T hasn't "given" us access to yet was a general question.
Aside from that, is it possible?

Jonathon1710 said:
I apologize if I put it in the wrong forum, but I didn't think that editing the build.prop file or regulating 4G speeds that AT&T hasn't "given" us access to yet was a general question.
Aside from that, is it possible?
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So, you want to post in development? Ask yourself this:
Is what I am going to post a question?
If so, this is not the right place to post a new thread. Instead, use the SEARCH function to find a thread about your question. If that's not available, post your question in General.
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Just sayin...

Point taken.

Well no offense to anyone, but changing the build.prop of any phone to alter the dynamics of how to phone runs or behaves sounds like development to me...
Can it be done? Do you know how exactly it's done on the inspire?
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SSJ_Gomike said:
Well no offense to anyone, but changing the build.prop of any phone to alter the dynamics of how to phone runs or behaves sounds like development to me...
Can it be done? Do you know how exactly it's done on the inspire?
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Your missing what the dev section is for.
If someone had a custom Build.prop they wanted to share, that is a Dev post. Asking a question about development is not.

no, from what I've been tinkering with in the test settings (accessed with *#0011#) and pressing menu, back, selecting "network control", then "hspa cat control", I'm able to get better speeds on CAT 10 than CAT 14, but other's speeds may vary. (I know I'm a heavy user that uses over 15 to 20 GB per month too, so it may just be going through a CAT that I'm not throttled on too.... )
But with all above, I agree that this should be in General....

the inspire has hsupa disabled foe the att version with a line in build.prop. hsupa has been disabled on all att phone cept the iphone and the infuse. tere have been different meathods to disable it but is irrelevant because the infuse has it enabled. ther may be other settings to change but not to get even better speeds but I don't think it will be in build.prop or yield the same results.

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no, from what I've been tinkering with in the test settings (accessed with *#0011#) and pressing menu, back, selecting "network control", then "hspa cat control", I'm able to get better speeds on CAT 10 than CAT 14, but other's speeds may vary. (I know I'm a heavy user that uses over 15 to 20 GB per month too, so it may just be going through a CAT that I'm not throttled on too.... )
But with all above, I agree that this should be in General....
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wow i started messing with the diffrent CAT settings on my infuse and now i have gotten up to 5250 down on my speed test! before the most ive gotten was low 3000's. a friend of mine has a infuse 4g also but he has gotten up to 10,000 down! he usually averages 7-8k on speed tests. WHY????? he has had his phone since it came out i think.

Someone needs to build a CAT setting tester/optimizer!

bedwa said:
no, from what I've been tinkering with in the test settings (accessed with *#0011#) and pressing menu, back, selecting "network control", then "hspa cat control", I'm able to get better speeds on CAT 10 than CAT 14, but other's speeds may vary. (I know I'm a heavy user that uses over 15 to 20 GB per month too, so it may just be going through a CAT that I'm not throttled on too.... )
But with all above, I agree that this should be in General....
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So i just followed what you said and the first screen that comes up, the general service mode screen says im running on 3g even though up in my task bar it shows the H+ symbol. Has my infuse been lying to me this whole time?

pr0necr0 said:
So i just followed what you said and the first screen that comes up, the general service mode screen says im running on 3g even though up in my task bar it shows the H+ symbol. Has my infuse been lying to me this whole time?
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No, AT&T has. HSPA+ is still 3G, even though AT&T calls it 4g. They may re-brand all the user-facing stuff to say 4G, but the phone's technical information that you aren't supposed to see will refer to it by its technical term, 3G.

if its not LTE , its not 4g Sorry to burst your bubble. I truely miss Tmobile when it comes to data. I would get around 6megs down all the time on "3g". I dont even get 3 most times with at&t and the upload is such horrible ****.

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if its not LTE , its not 4g Sorry to burst your bubble. I truely miss Tmobile when it comes to data. I would get around 6megs down all the time on "3g". I dont even get 3 most times with at&t and the upload is such horrible ****.
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LTE isn't 4G either, if you want to lump HSPA+ into ' it's not 4G' category. LTE currently offers nothing remotely close to the original ITU specs.
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wow i started messing with the diffrent CAT settings on my infuse and now i have gotten up to 5250 down on my speed test! before the most ive gotten was low 3000's. a friend of mine has a infuse 4g also but he has gotten up to 10,000 down! he usually averages 7-8k on speed tests. WHY????? he has had his phone since it came out i think.
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I typically get 3-4 Mbps at work/home. Last week I was about 4 miles away, got 8.9Mbps. Another day I was about 5 miles further, got 5.5 Mbps. Depends on which tower you're on.

Yeah, I've noticed that too. I switched the CAT and got improvement at my office... Now just to check at home.
I almost feel like my Captivate was faster somehow....
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no 4g love?

Had this phone about a week. Rooted with coredroid rom. I'm doing regular speed tests and im getting 1.2-2 mbps on average. Tonight i tried the 2nd apn and after a while i hit around 3. Am i missing something? Is att that lame? I'm coming from a captivate and i was getting those kind of speeds on it. I live in the philadelphia area so its not like i'm out in the woods.
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Tonight i tried the 2nd apn and after a while i hit around 3. Am i missing something? Is att that lame?
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In one word: yes. Some people can get 6-8. Normal is 2-3 for me, sometimes 4-6 really late at night.

henrybravo said:
In one word: yes. Some people can get 6-8. Normal is 2-3 for me, sometimes 4-6 really late at night.
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and people are supposed to rush out and upgrade phones for this? FAIL
I do love the phone.

On the upside the GPS actually works haha I also came from the Captivate.
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Inspire 4g Antenna Mod

Ok guys. After having the Inspire off and on for the last 2 years and loving the phone but hating the signal, I decided to try to do something about it.
My work has paid off and I will be attempting to make it better and more on the clean looking side of things.
I decided that the stock antenna just wasn't cutting it... Everyone knows this. So I got out some foil and some glue and got to work with building on to the crappy little sheets of metal they think is an antenna.
I split off a section of foil that is about 1 inch long and half an inch wide as well as a section of foil that is a half inch long and a quarter inch wide. I molded these to sections separately to each antenna contact on the cover. I glued them down to the plastic and made sure that the two sections did not touch where the two contacts are split off.
Results? Doubled my signal strength!!
Where I work, I normally will only get 1 or 2 bars on a good day with 3g and H+ changing back and forth. On a bad day it will jump down to no signal at all. Now I get 3 to 4 bars consistently with H+.
At home: 4 bars normally in the middle of the house, but it will jump between 3g and H+. Now it is at 4 to 5 bars but stays at H+.consistently.
At my girlfriends house: No signal while holding the phone or stuck on Edge. 2 bars if I set the phone down on the table with 3g or H+. Now with the mod, I get a consistent 3 bars on H+ while holding the phone, and 4 to 5 bars while it is on the table with full H+ coverage.
What I plan on doing because I have about 4 of the covers is using different methods and layouts for the modified antenna to see if I can maximize the signal and make it cleaner.
One thing I want to do is get some conductive glue and set up a kind of maze layout on the cover for better coverage. I will post pictures and such later when I get home
Also, I am sorry if this is in the wrong thread. I just want it to be known that we can have a better signal.

Reserved for pictures and whatever else.

I am curious to see this!

scorpiopantera said:
I am curious to see this!
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+1 ! I usually don't have signal issues with my Inspire but the wifes Vivid is kinda in and out. Maybe I can adopt some of your ingenuity for her phone. Theres also a couple guys at work with tmobile- sensation that have major signal issues, might work for them too!!! LETS SEE SOME PICS!! :laugh:

graydiggy said:
Reserved for pictures and whatever else.
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Got any pictures yet ?

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Got any pictures yet ?
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+1
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This is great you are getting better signal but this may not be so safe for the end user I would read up on what health effects would be caused by altering the antenna if I was you or anyone trying to modify the signal just to be on the safe side
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Nice Work!
but...TTIWWP

Hey guys... Sorry I haven't posted. Had some family and personal troubles I needed to take care of. I am now back to work on each version of the mod I am doing and will try to have pics up soon. Hard times these days...

insanenyc said:
This is great you are getting better signal but this may not be so safe for the end user I would read up on what health effects would be caused by altering the antenna if I was you or anyone trying to modify the signal just to be on the safe side
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I don't mind risking it for a better signal.

insanenyc said:
This is great you are getting better signal but this may not be so safe for the end user I would read up on what health effects would be caused by altering the antenna if I was you or anyone trying to modify the signal just to be on the safe side
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Yeah. Move into a bubble too. You can never be too safe! Lol
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joe3681 said:
Yeah. Move into a bubble too. You can never be too safe! Lol
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I was just letting the people who are willing to try this to know that it is not safe and I would not want even the slightest risk of a brain tumor just to get better reception but to each his own I was just advising people to read up before altering their phones antenna
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Health risks?
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I was just letting the people who are willing to try this to know that it is not safe and I would not want even the slightest risk of a brain tumor just to get better reception but to each his own I was just advising people to read up before altering their phones antenna
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I would think that it really is no different having the mod vs not having it. The theory is that the signal strength is always there in the airwaves. The only thing the OP has done is essentially increased the surface area of the antenna so that it will catch the signal better. The concept is no different than say adding foil to the rabbit ears of old, but one is just dealing with a much smaller space to work with.
And by the way...if you are so worried about brain tumors then why do you bother with a cell phone at all?

Wondering
Wonder if this could have any adverse affects on battery and/or voltages supplied to antenna? Any one know?
And any luck on pics yet? I understand that life can get in the way sometimes so no biggee. But I am definitely curious now.

aybarrap1 said:
I would think that it really is no different having the mod vs not having it. The theory is that the signal strength is always there in the airwaves. The only thing the OP has done is essentially increased the surface area of the antenna so that it will catch the signal better. The concept is no different than say adding foil to the rabbit ears of old, but one is just dealing with a much smaller space to work with.
And by the way...if you are so worried about brain tumors then why do you bother with a cell phone at all?
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I am not worried cause I use stock equipment that is not altered and approved by the fcc. When I am in an area with bad signal I force my phone into gsm only where I usually always get 4-5 bars :banghead:
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I also don't think that altering the antenna, like this, would increase the chance of a brain tumor 1. Studies haven't truly proven that this is true 2. They sell cell phone boosters that do the same thing and those are FCC approved as well. But I do get where your coming from.
Plus I barely talk on the phone I text, surf the web, or use hands free. Once a week won't harm me too much but I would enjoy being able to text in my house, hope this works.
(on a side note I lost my cover a month ago so I jammed a paperclip in the receiver, believe it or not but I got a much better signal, didn't even think about the medical repercussions LOL)

need some pics please

I might have to try that.
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plz, post pictures..

Figure I jump on this thread. After reading what this guy did. I went and bought some extra SIM/SD covers, glue, aluminum foil, and conductive glue. I read what he did and until he posts some pictures I will try out my own techniques, based on what he did. This wont happen until next week when. But if it works I will post some pictures.

s3 signal not that great what else to get

For work I drive in fringe areas and 250 mile trip my s3 was dropping a lot of calls I would say 12 times.
I called vzw and they sent a replacement now I'm about half the drop calls I had before.
What do you guys suggest for a good signal phone?
I was looking at motto hd maxx

Have you tried flashing a new modem?
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Have you tried flashing a new modem?
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Have not tried to flash a new modem. I figured it's the antenna in it and could not be fixed

i get great reception. running cleanrom 5.5.1 and the k3 radio

krbernier said:
i get great reception. running cleanrom 5.5.1 and the k3 radio
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I will have to root this replacement s3 I got and try your suggestion.
Thanks

the k3 radio should be rolling out in the jellybean update today OTA. maybe wait and see how it is. if you are not opposed to rooting and unlocking the bootloader then i highly recommend cleanrom.

Motorola is a great phone for reception, probably the best imo.

Regardless of the radio on a GS3, it simply doesn't get the same reception some Motorola and Apple phones get... At my house, with the newest radio, I have to go outside in one particular area and stand still to make a call. With my old Droid 2 and my iPhone 4S I could easily walk around, inside and outside and keep a phone call with minimal issues.
The new radio helped mind you, i'm not out of signal 30% of the time now.... but it's still not quite there.

It's different for everyone. I get the same as my HTC incredible. I tested and compared before and after. Like others have said, maybe a different modem will help.
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Polymira said:
Regardless of the radio on a GS3, it simply doesn't get the same reception some Motorola and Apple phones get... At my house, with the newest radio, I have to go outside in one particular area and stand still to make a call. With my old Droid 2 and my iPhone 4S I could easily walk around, inside and outside and keep a phone call with minimal issues.
The new radio helped mind you, i'm not out of signal 30% of the time now.... but it's still not quite there.
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I agree. I work on a wind farm and my co workers have iPhones. They get better service than I do and I've gone through every modem out there.
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xbiker321 said:
I agree. I work on a wind farm and my co workers have iPhones. They get better service than I do and I've gone through every modem out there.
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As someone has said, it is different for everyone. At my office everyone has Android except 1 person. The iphone user struggles with signal there while the majority of Android users have a fairly strong signal, including me with both of my S3's. One is stock, one is CleanRom.

xbiker321 said:
I agree. I work on a wind farm and my co workers have iPhones. They get better service than I do and I've gone through every modem out there.
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I love the s3 but not getting a decent signal to talk in fringe area is killing it for me.

I get pretty bad and bipolar reception on my s3. Flashed every modem so far. The phone just doesn't have the best antennae. Pretty sure that's been established.
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NightxFall said:
I get pretty bad and bipolar reception on my s3. Flashed every modem so far. The phone just doesn't have the best antennae. Pretty sure that's been established.
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Motorolas tend to bre a bit better based on my experience (and looking at signal strengths, data spedd, etc...). But I really like this phone and I'm in a decent enough signal area for this not to be a factor. My wifes iPhone is actually a bit worse than my S3.
Should've seen the Galaxy Nexus... That phone was horrible. I thin it's a Samsung thing.

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I get pretty bad and bipolar reception on my s3. Flashed every modem so far. The phone just doesn't have the best antennae. Pretty sure that's been established.
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This has been established for 3 years lol. Samsung makes the most feature rich phone but just doesn't do the best radios. My wife's does better than her nexus did, but still worse than my rezound with my radio combination in her terrible service area. But, it still is the best Samsung she has had as far as reception on a Samsung goes... In her ****ty service area.

Called vzw to see if I could swap phones I told them.id like to swap my s3 for the moto hd.
The lady helping tried her best but her supervisor only wanted to swap an original razr maxx.
I told her I didnt think that was a fair trade and then she pulled up a comparison and agreed with me.
Her hands were tied so what do you do

bluegrizzlies1 said:
Called vzw to see if I could swap phones I told them.id like to swap my s3 for the moto hd.
The lady helping tried her best but her supervisor only wanted to swap an original razr maxx.
I told her I didnt think that was a fair trade and then she pulled up a comparison and agreed with me.
Her hands were tied so what do you do
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You call back and reach another rep.
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Wait a few hours and call back. I tried the keep calling back thing when I was trying to get my upgrade moved up 1 week so I could get the SGS3 and they started saying when I asked about an early upgrade that since I wanted the GS3 they couldn't do it and then started saying no to an early upgrade.
I'm right there with the OP on the terrible reception. I've had Samsung phones before and they all were bad compared to Moto, but the GS3 is the worst I have had. I never had the Nexus so I don't know how bad it was but this is terrible. I constantly have to move my phone around and around and hit resend at least 5 times for every text. Phone calls rarely happen because they just won't come through. I find out after I leave the house that someone had called and left a message. If I make a call I have to walk around in my yard until it finally picks up a signal. Its very very sad that this phone has such ****ty reception because its such a great phone.
OP, if you want to switch wait until the evening shift and call until you get someone extremely friendly. That's what's always worked best when I have had a problem with anything. Any time I have called in the middle of the day for anything they are always assholes and don't really care what your problem is.
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I just got back from visiting my mom down in Cochran. I live in Warner Robins and in Cochran my wife's gs3 had kicked to 3g at 600 kb dl speeds and on my rezound with my radio layout I was still able to pull 6 mb dl on 4g. I was able to maintain 4g. I also had 3 bars of service and 4g and in the house she had 1 bar of service and 0 data. Just signal for a call or text.
Basically it was such a large difference that my parents, as much as they like the gs3, will not even be able to buy one due to signal alone. They are gonna try out some razr hds possibly next week so next time I'm down I fan kinda get a better comparison seeing as how my rezound is far from stock lol. Wife's gs3 is bone stock no root ota jellybean