I've been noticing that for the last few days I can only get 2 bars anywhere in Dallas if the 4G-LTE symbol is present. If a call enterupts a data session and the phone drops to 4G, I get 4 or 5 bars. Is this normal? I used to get more bars and much faster internet.
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I've been noticing that for the last few days I can only get 2 bars anywhere in Dallas if the 4G-LTE symbol is present. If a call enterupts a data session and the phone drops to 4G, I get 4 or 5 bars. Is this normal? I used to get more bars and much faster internet.
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The tower probably isn't broadcasting at full strength, I'm at 2 bars on LTE constantly also.
I really don't care, because 1 bar of LTE is faster then 5 bars of HSPA+, and that one LTE bar is still more stable then HSPA+.
What I notice is on LTE when I pull my phone out of my pocket I will have full bars of LTE then it will slowly drop down to one or two once I unlock the screen.
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What part of Dallas? I have not noticed anything significant in north d (Richardson Plano and north on 75)
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I have noticed this all over north dallas, from the galleria area all the way to frisco. It wasn't like this a month ago. I use to get 4 or 5 bars and over 50 megabytes a second. Now I can only get 10 to 12 megabytes a second.
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I have noticed an average of about that as well. The key spots that got 45± still do though. Those are always within a few hundred feet of an obvious/visible tower tho
Bars could be a number of things. Using a network info app we found last month that the skyrockets bars are nowhere near accurate
Showing 1-2 bars where another att phone (tested with orig gs2 and an inspire) showed more bars but signal strength was identical
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I have noticed this all over north dallas, from the galleria area all the way to frisco. It wasn't like this a month ago. I use to get 4 or 5 bars and over 50 megabytes a second. Now I can only get 10 to 12 megabytes a second.
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I have not really been paying attention to my signal strength. I saw this thread earlier this morning. I took this screenshot at tollway and park in West Plano where I have always received 4 to 5 bars. Also checked several other places as I ran errands and did not noticed any differences. Did not run speed test.
I was at Preston and Frankford today, and I finally started seeing 4 bars, and about 35 mb/s. But I was also at Hillcrest and Alpha, and saw only 2 bars.
Interestingly enough, I did notice that sometime I have more bars on my home screen, then they drop back down to 2 almost as soon as I open my apps, just like Cyberguycpt stated. Maybe it's a coincidence, but it sure didn't seem so.
Mine have done that since release
...all over the nation
Budge said:
I was at Preston and Frankford today, and I finally started seeing 4 bars, and about 35 mb/s. But I was also at Hillcrest and Alpha, and saw only 2 bars.
Interestingly enough, I did notice that sometime I have more bars on my home screen, then they drop back down to 2 almost as soon as I open my apps, just like Cyberguycpt stated. Maybe it's a coincidence, but it sure didn't seem so.
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I was at Preston and Frankford today, and I finally started seeing 4 bars, and about 35 mb/s. But I was also at Hillcrest and Alpha, and saw only 2 bars.
Interestingly enough, I did notice that sometime I have more bars on my home screen, then they drop back down to 2 almost as soon as I open my apps, just like Cyberguycpt stated. Maybe it's a coincidence, but it sure didn't seem so.
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Hehe, you were at Preston and Frankford? I live behind the Tom Thumb there. xD
Anyways, I've noticed that mine does the same thing. It has 4 bars, till I unlock, then it slows drops down.
Meh, I still get good speeds, so it really doesn't phase me.
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I woke up this morning to an Lte signal on my phone. Toledo Is up a day early.
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It is definitely here but definitely not the fastest I've had I hope they turn the power up or something tomorrow when it goes official because I'm getting speeds on par with a good nights 3G right now.
I hope that it gets to my area by the end of August. We all know how well the rumors go.
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It is definitely here but definitely not the fastest I've had I hope they turn the power up or something tomorrow when it goes official because I'm getting speeds on par with a good nights 3G right now.
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idk what ur talking about but im getting like 29 down, never saw that even with "good" 3g speeds
My speeds seem a little down to. They were better when they were testing it. Hopefully it will pick up
Highest I've gotten is 3 down
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I averaged about 6 down and 3 up all day. I did swap radios and try different things but mainly 6 down was max.
What rom and radios are you using? and what are you using to measure your speeds?
I am running Das BAMF Sense 3.0 rc4 with the official radio. I have switched radios but no noticeable difference and the speed test from the market.
I got a max of 10 down average has been about 5down. Using mr2 and das bamf gingerstrip. I was hoping for faster, maybe I'll try the mr2.75 radio
I'm standing I'm menards right now in toledo and only pulling 2
down. Seems slower today.
I was getting around 6 this morning downtown at the Gov't center using xtreeme speed test but only 3 with Speedtest.net go figure
I've been seeing very different results based on where I test to. Anywhere from 5.3 to 16 down. I think it will get better.
took this the other day lol
nd just took this right now
What rom are you running?
I'm in bowling green have had 4g for a few days but I work in whitehouse and can't pick up 4g
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What rom are you running?
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im running cm7 right now
I'm really thinking that some of these speed test results are off. Based on how long it's taken me to download some files, it's gotta be well over the 5 or 6 Mbit a lot of people are seeing. Something more on the order of 15 to 20 Mbit. Is there another way to test speed beyond speakeasy?
Have u been to a speakeasy
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About twice a month, it seems like 4g data goes down in phoenix. Anyone experiencing this? I change to LTE mode in dad bamf settings and get nothing.
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Negative, I work in PHX live in Gilbert... it's never gone down for me... I have had the phone occasionally lock itself in 3G when I know I'm in a 4G zone, but a reboot or LTE on/off usually fixes that.
Mine was out last night but thought it was mostly due to storm, back up again as I am using it now. Queen Creek is my location.
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Thanks guys, I am guessing it is a radio issue. Will try reseting.
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i have lost my 4G service in Phoenix before but then i switch set dns to the google dns option and it works.
Other than sporadic issues lasting a few minutes, have not had any outages in the past few months. Out in the Queen Creek area.
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Mine was out last night but thought it was mostly due to storm, back up again as I am using it now. Queen Creek is my location.
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How'd you like that storm? I live in the outskirts of Queen Creek where the microburst hit. Kinda weird seeing twenty powerlines turned into splinters, looks like something snapped them at the base like twigs.
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no 4G in my area yet, although since yesterday the 3G has been going up & down regularly and is still doing it today. a friend of mine has a Droid Charge and has said the same thing is happening with her phone.
the "3G" logo will suddenly disappear & the bars will go off, then it'll either come right back up(or after a few seconds) and sometimes will show "1X".
i'm in Carlsbad, CA btw. i wonder what the hell Verizon is doing....
Mine cut out for a minute or so but nothing major.
i live in the tempe/scottsdale area and have never gotten 4g outages
Works for me as well. Scottsdale/Phoenix border.
Its been intermittent for a day or two in Dallas/Fort Worth when ever they do the network upgrade nationwide for the new networks to come online.
It seems I never have less than 3 bars of signal, makes me wonder if it's lying to me, which it has to be.
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Right now I have one bar, now two. I would think it would be correct, but there is always the chance of hardware or software issue on your device. If you.check under network you can see if the signal dBm are changing.
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bloodrain954 said:
It seems I never have less than 3 bars of signal, makes me wonder if it's lying to me, which it has to be.
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I have 3+ bars, I just think it has to do with your location. I'm in an LTE market.
Well I live in Miami, and notice I always have 3 bars or more, but my data randomly stops working, making me think I lost connection and its really just lying to me
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Right now I have one bar, now two. I would think it would be correct, but there is always the chance of hardware or software issue on your device. If you.check under network you can see if the signal dBm are changing.
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thanks, i'll check that next time it happens
I live in Charlotte and rarely ever have less than 5 bars in this city. LTE as well. Loving it!
Also rarely get less than 3 bars. I'm in LTE market in Chicago and I think with the LTE signal being strong and penetrating building better, it just leaves us with much better signal. I haven't been out of a consistent LTE coverage area since I got the HOX, so I can't say if signal weakens much on HSPA+, but I assume it would. Overall, I've been blown away by reception on the HOX so far.
*glances up*
I have 3 bars. But... I do recall only having 1 on a drive once.
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I never get 4 bars when I am inside the house. I am in Orange County with LTE.
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So does anybody use their Skyrocket full-time in a non-LTE area?? I'm back home now for the holidays and don't have LTE here, and my battery literally went from 97% to 37% in 2.5 hrs with 49 mins of screen on and 59 mins of awake time. Meaning no significant wakelocks. Just the radio trying to find LTE. Is the battery always that terrible for you guys in non-LTE? I get a consistent ~18 hrs with 3 hrs screen on time while on LTE 24/7.
What do you guys do?? I tried flashing the Rogers radio and switching the Network Mode, but it does the same thing as on an AT&T radio - switches right back to LTE. I tried selecting the Network Operator but I never get any choices to even select AT&T like others report. *#2263# doesn't work on CM. I tried switching the mode in *#*#4636#*#* but it switched right back to LTE. What gives? (I'm on CM10.)
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For a while I was in a non lte area. I had better battery life then than I do now in an lte area. I don't do anything different. I use uclf6 radio, which gets the best signal for me.
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Man that's interesting. Every time I come home to PA from Atlanta, my battery just tanks. I can't even make it through half a day. And the only difference is going from constant LTE to no LTE at all. No change in my daily routine. And I've been using UCLF6 since it came out. Now I'm on the Rogers RUXLF3 because I wanted to try switching network modes, which didn't work. I don't know why it works for everyone else.
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Man that's interesting. Every time I come home to PA from Atlanta, my battery just tanks. I can't even make it through half a day. And the only difference is going from constant LTE to no LTE at all. No change in my daily routine. And I've been using UCLF6 since it came out. Now I'm on the Rogers RUXLF3 because I wanted to try switching network modes, which didn't work. I don't know why it works for everyone else.
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Sometimes when you move far distances they might have to reset something with the network. When I moved from pa to Florida they did some kind of network reset or something to my old iPhone. Not sure if they still do that or not. Now I travel from Texas to Louisiana and Mississippi a lot and I don't experience any battery tank. And I don't have lte in Louisiana or Mississippi. I get better battery life there then in Houston on lte.
Are you carrier unlocked? Even if you are I don't think cm10 based roms are able to switch network mode. That's if I remember correctly, which I could be wrong since I don't use that feature.
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Ohhhh I didn't realize that about CM and the network mode - thanks! I think I'm gonna try out the leak or Jedi and see how things go with that. I'm not carrier unlocked - just straight up AT&T.
That's interesting about the reset for location. I never heard of that. But I bought the phone here in PA, with a PA number. I've just been down in Atlanta for grad school. We're really close with our AT&T sales rep though so I could probably ask her.
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Ohhhh I didn't realize that about CM and the network mode - thanks! I think I'm gonna try out the leak or Jedi and see how things go with that. I'm not carrier unlocked - just straight up AT&T.
That's interesting about the reset for location. I never heard of that. But I bought the phone here in PA, with a PA number. I've just been down in Atlanta for grad school. We're really close with our AT&T sales rep though so I could probably ask her.
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Yeah ask the rep, he probably knows more about how the network works. What's weird is, I've not had a battery drain when going to non lte areas and spending weeks there. It actually saves my battery. Here in Houston I hit 40mbps/s and it probably burns through battery 15% faster than non lte areas. I have strong signal in both areas. Usually -75 to -85dBm. So it's not a signal fluctuation issue. Do you have weak hspa signal in pa?
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Yeah ask the rep, he probably knows more about how the network works. What's weird is, I've not had a battery drain when going to non lte areas and spending weeks there. It actually saves my battery. Here in Houston I hit 40mbps/s and it probably burns through battery 15% faster than non lte areas. I have strong signal in both areas. Usually -75 to -85dBm. So it's not a signal fluctuation issue. Do you have weak hspa signal in pa?
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Looks like I'm going from about -90 to -105 dBm. So I guess that's not too great. Unfortunately, I can't tell you what I get in Atlanta.
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Looks like I'm going from about -90 to -105 dBm. So I guess that's not too great. Unfortunately, I can't tell you what I get in Atlanta.
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Yeah that's not good. That could be eating some battery.
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Yeah that's not good. That could be eating some battery.
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Yea that could definitely be it. Didn't think about that. But man that just seems like a huge hit in battery life - from 18 hrs down to 4 hrs. And I never had that problem with my Captivate, or my dad's Infuse. That's why the only major variable I could think of was the LTE.
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Yea that could definitely be it. Didn't think about that. But man that just seems like a huge hit in battery life - from 18 hrs down to 4 hrs. And I never had that problem with my Captivate, or my dad's Infuse. That's why the only major variable I could think of was the LTE.
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It's always looking for lte, and now it has a crappy hspa signal. I'm guessing that's it, but it could be something else.
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So does anybody use their Skyrocket full-time in a non-LTE area?? I'm back home now for the holidays and don't have LTE here, and my battery literally went from 97% to 37% in 2.5 hrs with 49 mins of screen on and 59 mins of awake time. Meaning no significant wakelocks. Just the radio trying to find LTE. Is the battery always that terrible for you guys in non-LTE? I get a consistent ~18 hrs with 3 hrs screen on time while on LTE 24/7.
What do you guys do?? I tried flashing the Rogers radio and switching the Network Mode, but it does the same thing as on an AT&T radio - switches right back to LTE. I tried selecting the Network Operator but I never get any choices to even select AT&T like others report. *#2263# doesn't work on CM. I tried switching the mode in *#*#4636#*#* but it switched right back to LTE. What gives? (I'm on CM10.)
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i live in non-lte area.. this is how my stock batt looks on everyday use... don't even ask me what happens when I use gps.
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i live in non-lte area.. this is how my stock batt looks on everyday use... don't even ask me what happens when I use gps.
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Yikes that's brutal. Sorry about that.
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I'm on aokp and what I have to do is search for networks manually and select AT&T. Once you do that, you can force the 2g only option. Or *#*#4636#*#* and select the network mode you want. I'm on Rogers radio on AT&T and my phone isn't unlocked.
It can take like 2 minutes to search when you first do it manually.
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I'm on aokp and what I have to do is search for networks manually and select AT&T. Once you do that, you can force the 2g only option. Or *#*#4636#*#* and select the network mode you want. I'm on Rogers radio on AT&T and my phone isn't unlocked.
It can take like 2 minutes to search when you first do it manually.
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As I stated in the OP I tried both of those things and neither worked. I'm on Rogers radio on AT&T and not unlocked. I tried searching for Network Operator but all it does is flash a popup saying Searching and immediately disappears. I've clicked it a million times. Sometimes it takes slightly longer, but still never gives any results.
And then *#*#4636#*#* just switches the mode back immediately after I change it.
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That's strange, I've only used my phone on at&t. Never unlocked it. It works fine for me.
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Rant. I have been having slow interernet speeds in the evenings for 15 days with three mobile and it has been logged with theur engineers for 15days. They have come back twice saying they thought it was fixed when it is not. Has now gone back again for up to another 7 days.
By slow talking below 512kps a second this is on the evening in the morning usually okay above 2mb
Anyone else get this run around from the company?!
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