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Picked up my Infuse up at BestBuy on May 15th, the release date. After 1 week, I've had these problems:
Main problem is that GPS sucks. I had specifically tried to get a smart phone to ditch my GPS navigator. This phone isn't it. Long times to fix, sometimes *never* producing a fix. If there is no network (away from civilization, no wifi or cell), there's often no fix, ever. This problem alone is probably enough for me to take it back. Does anyone know what the GPS implementation is in the Infuse? If it is a Broadcom chipset, that would explain it!
Wifi signal strength seems weak. In places where my laptop gets full bars, it gets half that. In places where my laptop gets two bars, it sometimes can't connect or it intermittently drops. This is very annoying.
Cell signal strength seems a bit weak, too. My old phone gets consistently one or two bars more. Cell data seemed not as strong, too.
I tried the HDMI adapter. It showed video fine, but failed to send audio to my TV. I know the TV is capable of HDMI audio from other sources. Oh well.
While driving with the device on sunny day, the screen was dim and hard to read. Found out the display brightness was low in auto mode. So I put it on manual, but it refused to allow full brightness, saying "Display brightness limited due to temperature" or something to that effect. So, you can't have full brightness in sunlight when you need it most? I suspect anybody who tries to use the car dash mount is going to run into thermal limiting problems, making that use impractical. Maybe if you get a white skin to keep the solar gain down. The thermal design isn't apparently good enough to get the heat out.
Otherwise, the phone seems pretty good, but my issues are high enough to have me contemplating a return.
I'll note that the Galaxy S II is reported to have a new GPS chipset, SirfStarIV, which sounds like a significant upgrade to the GPS system. But, not yet released in the US. Sigh.
How does one determine the GPS chipset in a phone?
Thanks for any help.
I've had a few issues with the phone also but you don't really expect your cell phone to get the same wifi signal as a full blown laptop do you?
Wow, seems as the Infuse does not meet your expectations. Question, If not the Infuse then what would be your next line up of devices?
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These are also my big issues, its definently the best ATT handset minus the antenna, I keep missing calls if its in my pocket and the wifi is really buggy.
DarkH2O said:
I've had a few issues with the phone also but you don't really expect your cell phone to get the same wifi signal as a full blown laptop do you?
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I make no apologies for having high expectations.
The wifi circuitry inside a phone should be as good as any that is inside a laptop. That leaves only the antenna as the prime issue for wifi performance. I can understand losing 3 dB, maybe 6 dB over a well designed laptop, but not 20 dB. That's severe incompetence in antenna design.
I've seen other smart phones do significantly better than the Infuse with regards to wifi.
pixelkore said:
Wow, seems as the Infuse does not meet your expectations.
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In those areas it isn't. I am particularly sensitive to GPS performance for my needs.
Question, If not the Infuse then what would be your next line up of devices?
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The Atrix is noted to have good GPS performance. I've been advised that Motorola is less friendly to things like rooting and ROMs than Samsung, though.
The HTC Inspire seems to have similar weak GPS problems.
The Samsung Galaxy II S (Attain on ATT?) is said to have a new GPS engine so that is what I hold out hope for. I may just return the Infuse and wait for that to come out and hope the GPS is improved.
I have had similar issues as well. Having a normal temp around 105° is high for any phone. It causes my screen to flicker constantly during game play. I expected something like an oversized captivate, which I got. I will switch to the gs 2 when it is released.
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mciholas said:
I make no apologies for having high expectations.
The wifi circuitry inside a phone should be as good as any that is inside a laptop. That leaves only the antenna as the prime issue for wifi performance. I can understand losing 3 dB, maybe 6 dB over a well designed laptop, but not 20 dB. That's severe incompetence in antenna design.
I've seen other smart phones do significantly better than the Infuse with regards to wifi.
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I get great speeds with my router. It's set to only n and I pay for 30 /5 and get that on land line and with phone I get 16-20 down and 4-5 on up...
sent from Infuse but miss my captivate on cont. 5.5.... One day this can be as good...
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I get great speeds with my router.
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Speed is not the issue, I get great speeds when close to my access point. The issue is lack of range and an unstable link.
I have to be in the same room as the access point, or maybe one room next to it, to get a reliable wifi connection on the Infuse. Other wifi devices work fine throughout the house.
My GPS units will get a lock in any room of the house. The Infuse GPS will not get a lock in any room of the house and takes a long time even outdoors.
I also get good range. May be my house but I can get great speeds in the garage. And the router is 3 walls and about 35ft. Also get good rec. Out side across my yard. (60ft.).
Not the best signal but 2bars.about 6mb.This is. Brand New house with the router about in center of floor plan.
sent from Infuse but miss my captivate on cont. 5.5.... One day this can be as good...
my captivate got better reception and didnt get as hot with heavy wifi usage. but you cant have everything.
i wouldn't get it because of the bad gps. i guess samsung forgot to put a gps antenna in it like they did with the rest of the galaxy s phones.
I love my infuse, my only issue is that 2 or 3 times so far, the phone starts playing music from my library without a music player opened. I've checked all my notifications and they are all set to what I want. Only thing i can think of, it's playing music to let me know my battery is full. My captivate used to beep, if its not the battery then i have no clue. no alarms are set, calenders have alerts turned off, sms is set to what I want, I don't know lol
Rldowney said:
I have had similar issues as well. Having a normal temp around 105° is high for any phone. It causes my screen to flicker constantly during game play. I expected something like an oversized captivate, which I got. I will switch to the gs 2 when it is released.
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How are you going to upgrade? Just off contract purchase?
I don't have any issues with my GPS. I have been using the phone and testing it our for almost 2 weeks now and have not had any issues with it using Google Maps or Google Navigator. I would put it on par with my Atrix where the GPS is phenomenal on it.
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Wifi issues
mciholas said:
I make no apologies for having high expectations.
The wifi circuitry inside a phone should be as good as any that is inside a laptop. That leaves only the antenna as the prime issue for wifi performance. I can understand losing 3 dB, maybe 6 dB over a well designed laptop, but not 20 dB. That's severe incompetence in antenna design.
I've seen other smart phones do significantly better than the Infuse with regards to wifi.
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I had to return my Infuse due to the poor wifi reception. I had it side by side with my old iPhone 3G a couple rooms away from the router. The Infuse dropped wifi completely and I lost internet connectivity while the iPhone was happily chugging along.
It's a gorgeous phone and I was sorry to send it back, but not being able to keep wifi connectivity when compared with a 3 year old iPhone was a dealbreaker.
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I rooted My infuse and installed faster fix and north america and my gps works perfect now it lock way faster then my htc inspire does i have noticed the phone gets warmer than others but i have only had it about four hours now so we will see
My gps using maps and navigation work perfectly, the only time i've noticed it getting hot is when I have it on the car dock, but, the thing is black and my car is old so everything is hot in it... i'm grandfathered into unlimited so I can't speak on the wifi cause I dont use it
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jdonnell said:
I had to return my Infuse due to the poor wifi reception. I had it side by side with my old iPhone 3G a couple rooms away from the router. The Infuse dropped wifi completely and I lost internet connectivity while the iPhone was happily chugging along.
It's a gorgeous phone and I was sorry to send it back, but not being able to keep wifi connectivity when compared with a 3 year old iPhone was a dealbreaker.
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I think I'm gonna follow suit , this phone is an attrocity in every single way
1 - Touch the phone frame with two fingers , wifi and phone signals drop by 3/4ths which is RIDICULOUS ... there is no 4g and the hspa+ system should go and suck an Elephant's left NUT
2- Gps lockon takes more than 10 minutes ... again I'm screwed if I'm in a rush + no TomTom
3 - No gingerbread ?? . . . F^K you samsung seriously ... Ice cream is up next within the next 2 months and not even one dev on the internet was able to come up with custom firmware (No offense to any devs , I know you guys are awesome and work your @$$es off... so props to you for devotion and work always but patience is not my virtue)
4 - Single core is kinda painful to bear when you know quad core & 3d phones are being released very soon
5 - No apps that can use the front face camera (AS FAR AS I KNOW) so again why bother even giving this to us ?, Samsung you guys might as well have given us a dual core with one of the cores shut off.
6 - THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT ... call quality / microphone is ATROCIOUS ... In my quiet bedroom at night with no audio disturbances my gf is telling me every 5 seconds that she can't hear me and that pisses me off so badly. I've tried with at least 10 other people all giving me same bs. So I have to yell at my phone like a walky talky .... so sad
If you bought this phone from costco you can do 2 things guys.
Either return the phone and stick with w/e u had b4 until the good stuff comes out or wait 90 days and pray something decent comes out by mid august.
I'm returning mine and returning to my Iphone 3g ( as old as it may be and dinged up it still is dam reliable )
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3 - No gingerbread ?? . . . F^K you samsung seriously ... Ice cream is up next within the next 2 months and not even one dev on the internet was able to come up with custom firmware (No offense to any devs , I know you guys are awesome and work your @$$es off... so props to you for devotion and work always but patience is not
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Okay. I hate getting worked up by people....but seriously? The phone has now been out for FOURTEEN DAYS!! Dont use "lack of dev work" as an excuse to take your phone back. I understand your frustrations, but just take it back and stop feeding this thread.
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Hi all,
Over on the international One X forum, we have a lot of people confirming a serious hardware fault where the wifi contact pins fail to connect to the antenna.
I am curious if this fault affects your s4 at&t version of the phone too.
There is a simple squeeze test you can do to check for the fault.
See the link here...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1688538
Fingers crossed your not affected by it.
Oliver
*EDIT* HTC have confirmed the issue only affects the international HOX and the feedback this thread received seems to prove them correct. Great news. *EDIT-END*
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This applies to the AT&T and Rogers One X. If your phone has signal gain when you press on the wifi antenna area of the case, it's defective and will eventually lose connection completely over time, so get it replaced on warranty.
That's not what he was saying, he was just wondering if we had the issue. I can't get mine to drop below full signal with.WiFi, unless I go for a walk outside. So it isn't effexting my phone.
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This applies to the AT&T and Rogers One X. If your phone has signal gain when you press on the wifi antenna area of the case, it's defective and will eventually lose connection completely over time, so get it replaced on warranty.
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So this fault does applie to the at & t Rogers version? Yes if anyone does suffer this fault, get it replaced or repaired.
Have you been affected by the issue?
Cheers for your feedback
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Thus far I cannot replicate this on my phone. Will test further later.
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my question is, how do we know when our phones will start acting up? Even if we exchange the phone, then there's still the likelihood that the new phone'd also have problems. Unless, HTC already has made some design changes to the newly imported batch (doubt it)
p/s: I have also not seen wifi issues with my phone. But I'll give it some more observations. Then again, I exchanged a HOX before because it couldn't keep a constant signal. So who knows..
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my question is, how do we know when our phones will start acting up? Even if we exchange the phone, then there's still the likelihood that the new phone'd also have problems. Unless, HTC already has made some design changes to the newly imported batch (doubt it)
p/s: I have also not seen wifi issues with my phone. But I'll give it some more observations. Then again, I exchanged a HOX before because it couldn't keep a constant signal. So who knows..
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It may not affect s4 versions at all, it is currently confirmed to affect the international version of the One X, I want to see if other phones are affected too.
The mostly likely causes of the problem are 1. Overheating and 2. The wifi connection pins getting squashed flat whilst your phone is in your pocket.
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my question is, how do we know when our phones will start acting up? Even if we exchange the phone, then there's still the likelihood that the new phone'd also have problems. Unless, HTC already has made some design changes to the newly imported batch (doubt it)
p/s: I have also not seen wifi issues with my phone. But I'll give it some more observations. Then again, I exchanged a HOX before because it couldn't keep a constant signal. So who knows..
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If reception is poor and improves when you push the case where wifi antennas are placed, you have a defective unit and you should get a replacement immediately.
damn i just sent my phone in for repairs because of a camera issue. i was experiencing the wifi signal drop prior to sending it in, but thinking it was a software problem. now, when i get my phone back ill most likely have to send it in again for repairs.
I believe our phones have the sam issue, when I press down I believe I do have an increased signal. Thanks for the heads up :/
-duf
It did increase my signal as well. It was struggling to connect where gnex used to have no problems and this corrected it.
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I was having the same problem with my ATT HTC One X.
I couldn't connect in places where my iPhone had 2 (out of 3) bars of wifi.
Unfortunately, it was a big enough deal to send the phone back. I thought they all did this.
If I don't have best wifi performance enabled my wifi is very flaky. It'll lose connection when it has full bars. But with best wifi on it can get about what I can get with my gsii (slightly worse)
Ugh... This isn't a thread about whether the phone has flakey WiFi, it's about whether you can make your WiFi signal change if you squeeze the phone.
For what its worth, mine doesn't seem to change if I lightly squeeze it. I dont really feel like pressing it hard enough to f up the screen though, so maybe you'll have different results...
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ECEXCURSION said:
Ugh... This isn't a thread about whether the phone has flakey WiFi, it's about whether you can make your WiFi signal change if you squeeze the phone.
For what its worth, mine doesn't seem to change if I lightly squeeze it. I dont really feel like pressing it hard enough to f up the screen though, so maybe you'll have different results...
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You don't have the fault then, if you had it you'd get 0-1 bars only around 8 meters away from your router with no walls between, whilst other phones enjoy full bars at that distance. Light squeeze the antenna part of the phone and the reception indicates full bars.
This fault affects bluetooth and battery performance too. It is really bad for anyone who has it. I'm glad you don't have it, but please, Don't make out that this is normal behaviour when squeezed.
My other thread has had 15000 views 200 comments. 7 different YouTube videos from 6 different members of xda forums, 7 self repair guides by 7 of our members taking their phones apart (all confirming it fixed their wifi) and countless people returning their phones for repair.
I only started the thread on 4 days ago. The popularity of the thread indicates what a serious issue it is on the international One X. If your s4 One X's don't suffer the issue or not as bad, it might give us a clue to what is wrong with ours.
Send from my old trusty Desire, untill I get my poorly One X back.
My phone was shipped to HTC for repair a week ago before I knew of this issue. When I saw this thread it made complete sense. My glass in one corner was separated from the actual device enough that light from the screen escaped out of it. I had absolutely no wifi. Still waiting to hear what HTC says. They received the phone a couple days ago. I'll report back on what they say about this.
Does anyone know if the new batch is any better?
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I just bought mine yesterday and it seems to have pretty good wifi reception. It can detect almost every network in range that my laptop detects but shows a weaker signal for them. Connects to my own wifi with full bars when close and loses a connection in the same area of the house that my galaxy note did. So I'd have to say the new batch have no wifi issues that I'm aware of.
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I just bought mine yesterday and it seems to have pretty good wifi reception. It can detect almost every network in range that my laptop detects but shows a weaker signal for them. Connects to my own wifi with full bars when close and loses a connection in the same area of the house that my galaxy note did. So I'd have to say the new batch have no wifi issues that I'm aware of.
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Is this with best wifi performance enabled or disable?
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Is this with best wifi performance enabled or disable?
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Had to give you a thanks, I didn't even know there was a best wifi option! I just checked the wifi setings and it's off. So this is my normal signal strength. I just checked best wifi and one of the signals it picked up was stronger. Mine is a full signal so I can't tell the difference. My daughter's room is the worst reception but it's 1:30AM so I won't test it on best right now.
So I love my sister, but she ordered new phones without asking me here. They offered her the One S for100 each and since it's the nest phone right now, she agreed. They should be delivered today out tomorrow.
The thing it's that I'd prefer the Amaze. I really want a dedicated camera button better frontfacing camera, sd card slot, and removable battery. Otoh the One S is slimmer it's supposed to have better battery life and a quicker camera. Le sigh.
Is it worth sending back the One S and ordering an Amaze? When I called CS they said the Amaze pricing would be somewhere between 100 and 200 so it may end up costing more money for the Amaze despite it being an older phone and available free online to upgrades.
is it worth sending back the One.to get the Amaze?
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Tough call. I had the option for the GS2, Amaze, blaze and the One S. I went with the One S because of the rear camera, updated tech and premium build quality and feel. If removable storage is deal breaker or a physical camera button then the One S is not for you.
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Keep the One S, you won't regret.
Friend has the blaze and its junk. Sgs2 is better than that. Amaze is a good phone with a bunch of hardware issues. I gave mine away after a few months and got the One S which is the best device tmo has to offer. Built solid, sense 4, globally marketed so much better development. Amaze development is a joke. It has a bunch of 15yr old kids developing a bunch of broken wip roms. Lol. It's embarrassing. Now that they have ics, they're developing CM7 LOLOL.
Get the One S or SGS3... I say the One S
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Thanks for the replies I first there are proud to the One S . This it's what I was hoping to hear. None of the pros for either phone are complete deal breakers. although the Sd card slot would be nice. I've got 12GB of music on my 32GB card now and 32GB will be hard to give up. Also, the front facing camera is only VGA right? How does it perform in different lighting situations? I'd only really use it for Google hangout and am current using my laptop which also has a VGA camera and I have to have a lot if lighting in order not to be a dark blur on the screen.
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jillora said:
Thanks for the replies I first there are proud to the One S . This it's what I was hoping to hear. None of the pros for either phone are complete deal breakers. although the Sd card slot would be nice. I've got 12GB of music on my 32GB card now and 32GB will be hard to give up. Also, the front facing camera is only VGA right? How does it perform in different lighting situations? I'd only really use it for Google hangout and am current using my laptop which also has a VGA camera and I have to have a lot if lighting in order not to be a dark blur on the screen.
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U do get 23GB added to your dropbox for cloud storage as well with One S... Plus Google Play Music works well for uploading up to 20k songs
But if u need an sd slot and removable battery, get the sgs3... Not the Amaze
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Amaze development is a joke. It has a bunch of 15yr old kids developing a bunch of broken wip roms. Lol. It's embarrassing. Now that they have ics, they're developing CM7 LOLOL.
Get the One S or SGS3... I say the One S
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haha, that made my day. sad yes, considering I still have an amaze.
nothing like a dozen themed roms all based off of one underclocked rom. aaaah.
but, I do like the camera button, from sleep it comes on in a second and its no lag, very fast, and great pics. Expandable memory is a plus for me, I couldn't be bothered with dropbox, I prefer to have my data to myself. the vga camera I wouldn't care about, I rarely use my front facing 2mp cam, but quality isn't there, I doubt you'd be able to tell the difference between the two. So, down to you which features are more important.
I have to agree with glacier on this, we just both switched from the Amaze. There are a few good Roms.. most of them are all based off of one Rom, so you get 10 different versions of a rom.
The One S is amazing, the amaze is literally a brick compared to this.
I can actually leave my capacitive lights on without seeing the light bleed, my back over doesn't squeak, I have a stronger WiFi signal.
I would stick with the One S.
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Good to know about the front facing camera. Even though I'd use it maybe once a week, I SO want something better than my laptop camera. Alas, maybe it's not meant to be.
My sister actually waited 3 hours longer than expected for the UPS guy earlier. She lives down near Houston and she was already heading up here to Dallas today so she figured she'd wait for the phone to arrive. The sister is sweet.
I'm cautiously looking forward to it, although it would be hard to beat the all-kinds-of-awesome HD2 for me. It was cheap so I never worry about dropping it on the floor or bricking it and there are so many different ROMs available. Unfortunately I need the money since next month's Tmobile bill is probably going to be over $500(100 plus tax for 2 phones and the upgrade fees and the more expensive plan) so the HD2 is going on Craigslist this weekend. I get way to attached to electronics...
I agree with all these guys I have the amaze and one S IMHO stick with the one.
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I had the Amaze and now have the One S. Between dropbox and google drive I really don't miss having a SD card. The battery life is ok, sucks if you stay connected to wi-fi and use wi-fi calling though. But over all think the One S is far better than the Amaze. Wouldn't go back
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I had the Amaze and now have the One S. Between dropbox and google drive I really don't miss having a SD card. The battery life is ok, sucks if you stay connected to wi-fi and use wi-fi calling though. But over all think the One S is far better than the Amaze. Wouldn't go back
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Im on WiFi calling almost all day, and my battery barely drains.
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So we kept the two HTC One S phones. As you say robbyb, the extra dropbox space is nice. I've been uploading my music to Google Play, but it's been taking forever. It is over 6000 songs though.
I should probably start a new thread for this, but I may as well ask here. My immediate first impressions were that the device is really slick and attractive and fast and the cameras are all kinds of awesome. Then I started using the phone and found a glaring deficit, the internet signal strength. grrr.
Both my sister's phone and mine seem to have pretty crappy internet signals. This effects both the mobile data and wifi. While I was getting 2-4 bars in the house and 2-4mbs d/l speeds for 3g and up to 8-9 mbs for wifi with my hd2. Now I'm getting .024-19 mbs for mobile data. Yeah that's quite a range. The .024-.7 mbs happen in the park beside my home and the 18-19 mbs were at the McDonalds less than a mile away. If I'm outside, I get up to 4 mbs. My wifi reception doesn't vary quite as much as the mobile data reception. It's 3-7 mbs. For most of my tests, I stayed in the same place in the house, except for the trips to the park and McDonalds.
The mobile speeds at home suck. If I try to do anything while not connected to the wifi, the connection usually times out. The signal also seems to fluctuate a lot. The phone will be laying on the bed and not moving and the numbers of bars goes down to zero then up again to 3. A few times it's gone up to 5 bars and then I try to use the internet and the connection times out again. The phone also gets really hot at these times.
Yeah and the wifi fluctutuates almost as much. Likewise, it will sit in the same plce and go from 1-4 strength periodically.
I went ahead and changed the APN to the old one I was using with the HD2. I don't know why, but the next test did have almost double the signal strength, although I've still getting connection time outs. For the wifi, I tried FXR Wifi Fix and Rescue which worked great on my signal when the HD2 started acting up again on some random ROM a few months ago. Thought I'd give it another shot and no, it had no effect.
Now I have been using Speedtest and I know it's not completely accurate, but the results make sense based on how the phone is acting when I'm running the tests and I can compare the data to the HD2.
Sorry for the long-winded explanation of our difficulties, does anyone have a solution to wifi and 3g/4g issues. The phones shipped with the newest update from Tmobile and have been restarted several times.
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So we kept the two HTC One S phones. As you say robbyb, the extra dropbox space is nice. I've been uploading my music to Google Play, but it's been taking forever. It is over 6000 songs though.
I should probably start a new thread for this, but I may as well ask here. My immediate first impressions were that the device is really slick and attractive and fast and the cameras are all kinds of awesome. Then I started using the phone and found a glaring deficit, the internet signal strength. grrr.
Both my sister's phone and mine seem to have pretty crappy internet signals. This effects both the mobile data and wifi. While I was getting 2-4 bars in the house and 2-4mbs d/l speeds for 3g and up to 8-9 mbs for wifi with my hd2. Now I'm getting .024-19 mbs for mobile data. Yeah that's quite a range. The .024-.7 mbs happen in the park beside my home and the 18-19 mbs were at the McDonalds less than a mile away. If I'm outside, I get up to 4 mbs. My wifi reception doesn't vary quite as much as the mobile data reception. It's 3-7 mbs. For most of my tests, I stayed in the same place in the house, except for the trips to the park and McDonalds.
The mobile speeds at home suck. If I try to do anything while not connected to the wifi, the connection usually times out. The signal also seems to fluctuate a lot. The phone will be laying on the bed and not moving and the numbers of bars goes down to zero then up again to 3. A few times it's gone up to 5 bars and then I try to use the internet and the connection times out again. The phone also gets really hot at these times.
Yeah and the wifi fluctutuates almost as much. Likewise, it will sit in the same plce and go from 1-4 strength periodically.
I went ahead and changed the APN to the old one I was using with the HD2. I don't know why, but the next test did have almost double the signal strength, although I've still getting connection time outs. For the wifi, I tried FXR Wifi Fix and Rescue which worked great on my signal when the HD2 started acting up again on some random ROM a few months ago. Thought I'd give it another shot and no, it had no effect.
Now I have been using Speedtest and I know it's not completely accurate, but the results make sense based on how the phone is acting when I'm running the tests and I can compare the data to the HD2.
Sorry for the long-winded explanation of our difficulties, does anyone have a solution to wifi and 3g/4g issues. The phones shipped with the newest update from Tmobile and have been restarted several times.
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The Amaze has those problems also, but worse.
Really the only thing you can do is flash a custom rom and hope for the best, Zydroid is pretty awesome right now. Amazing battery life, my wifi signal doesn't fluctuate, my cell signal fluctuates some but I also have a week signal at home.
The only time my phone gets hot is when it's in direct sunlight, which I assume is due to the fact that it's surrounded in aluminum which, gets hot fast in sunlight...
Yeah, that sunlight is not so good for electronics, lol. I wonder if my sister's and my phones are atypical. If the One S usually performs better, we may try to exchange them. That's why it's still stock. I'll wait until I'm outside of the 14 day return period and commited before installing a ROM, although every time I see the app drawer, I want to at least root it and get rid of all the bloatware. Now when I'm not having connection issues, this phone is pretty epic.
Eta the next morning. Oh bother. The phone has been off the charger for 1.5 hours and has only 50% battery left. That's so wrong. When I turned off the WiFi the mobile data couldn't connect until I restarted the phone. Bother that will be annoying if it continues
How many of you have had to return your S3 due to out of box defects? My first one would chronically overheat, had low signal, miserable 3g speeds (I know they're pretty miserable anyway), awful battery life, and would consistently drop my wifi signal at home.
Now, I'm on my second device. This one doesn't hold a much better signal, and worse yet, I have a very random screen glitch where it shows digital artifacts on some screens, and sometimes it actually flashes and randomly blinks at me, very much like a PC with a bad graphics card. Unfortunately it doesn't do I consistently either.
Am I just the luckiest person alive to get two of these that are bad straight out of the box?
I feel like a dbag taking this one back after I already took the first one back with issues. Especially since the graphics thing is so intermittent.
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Sorry to hear that man. The only issue mine has is with very dark Grey screens it shows small black splotches on the screen, otherwise never there and I've looked closely
Otherwise 3G is slow (200kbps or so) but bearable. No other major issues, battery holds a 6.5hr charge with constant use and screen on basically non stop stock battery
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On my second one, the first one had a Bluetooth issue. When connected to any BT device it would crackle randomly. The second one had issues out of the box. Same as you, connection was horrible. Even in the same locations and apps, the first one seemed to connect well. I ended up doing several factory resets and now it seems better. My local vzw store was convinced enough to give me a third, but after it settled down I figured that I'd just keep this one. There is something weird about these phones. The connection is worse than my thunderbolt. The battery is all over the place (due to the radio I'm sure). We'll see I guess
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I have a blue 16gb and wife has a white 16gb, both arrived early on pre-order. No issues with either phone.
Yeah, it sucks for sure, he phone has so much potential if it worked properly.
I dumped att for Verizon at the same time, and my 14/days are up today. Ill likely port back to att, and wait to see what happens with LTE here.
3G alone is just unbearable on VZ.
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Yeah, it sucks for sure, he phone has so much potential if it worked properly.
I dumped att for Verizon at the same time, and my 14/days are up today. Ill likely port back to att, and wait to see what happens with LTE here.
3G alone is just unbearable on VZ.
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This is something to do with the phone, not verizon. I said in another thread they need to fix these cell issues asap. My old phone got 3 MBs down and up, this one gets less then 1 on both. 4G is fine but I don't live in 4G area, unless I literally walk a street away...:silly: Start calling and reporting this stuff to customer service. I've been doing this everyday.
Complaining on a forum does not fix the issues.
My first one had the USB port randomly go bad. Returned it in the first 14 days. This second unit is working ok though there seems to be a spec of dust or something under the screen that drives me slightly insane.
Radios have not been samsungs strong points. Wifi essentially does not work until I turn off power save which is a pita and resets after reboot. My rezound never had issues even with wifi on power save
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Radios have not been samsungs strong points.
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Samsung radios have always sucked, Samsung is known for this.
My Rezound had a far better radio than either my current G3 or my Wifes Droid Charge (& the POS Nexus I had briefly was even worse).
Calling customer service doesn't fix "service" issues either, not to mention I don't have time to be on the phone with CS telling them how my service sucks every day. Not to mention that my gf can have full service, the Xoom has full service, and this phone has 3 bars if lucky, along with abysmal download speeds. Its as bad as Sprint with this phone. This doesn't seem to be Verizon isolated either, as local US Cellular customers have also been complaining of slow speeds and bad reception.
I don't even know what else Verizon has that I'd consider. Just sucks, because the phone is very nice.
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i returned my gs3 suposedly due to factory defect but i knew it was my fault, and it had 3 dents on it from me dropping it lol... after flashing roms with k-exec so many times, i managed to change the network type to 3g only and the best buy rep couldn't figure out how to get it to connect to 4g. I know how i could of fixed it with phone info from android market but thats after the fact.... So he replaced with a brand new pebble blue 16g gs3 and it was updated to vrlg1 rather the older version. I was greatfull plus i added black tie protection and purchased buy back before they ended the program :fingers-crossed::good:
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Samsung radios have always sucked, Samsung is known for this.
My Rezound had a far better radio than either my current G3 or my Wifes Droid Charge (& the POS Nexus I had briefly was even worse).
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I am still not convinced this is the case. I also have a rezound. They report the signal differently and what I've noticed is that it seems like the Samsung phone because of the way it reports the signal assumes the signal is worse before the rezound does and kicks to 3G sooner.
I don't know if it can be changed so it holds 4G longer, but back when I had an evo 4G with wimax you could tell the phone to hold the signal longer than default and I'd get wimax in my house when default settings would kick me immediately to 3G when I walked through the front door.
So I don't think the phone has terrible radios just that if you rated the 4G signal on a scale of 1-20 with 20 being the worst reception, that the rezound will hold 4G until it hits 18-19 and switch to 3G and the GSIII cuts out at 12-13 and there for where I have signal with my rezound, I could have it with the GSIII, other than it decides to dump the signal.
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i returned my gs3 suposedly due to factory defect but i knew it was my fault, and it had 3 dents on it from me dropping it lol... after flashing roms with k-exec so many times, i managed to change the network type to 3g only and the best buy rep couldn't figure out how to get it to connect to 4g. I know how i could of fixed it with phone info from android market but thats after the fact.... So he replaced with a brand new pebble blue 16g gs3 and it was updated to vrlg1 rather the older version. I was greatfull plus i added black tie protection and purchased buy back before they ended the program :fingers-crossed::good:
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I work at best buy geek squad. It's not called black tie anymore it's called geek squad protection. Black tie was always the dumbest **** I ever heard. Also buy back is staying for mobile phones forever. The rest of the store got rid of it though cause it was a ripoff LOLOL
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I work at best buy geek squad. It's not called black tie anymore it's called geek squad protection. Black tie was always the dumbest **** I ever heard. Also buy back is staying for mobile phones forever. The rest of the store got rid of it though cause it was a ripoff LOLOL
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was never called black tie, it was Geeksquad Black Tie protection, Which if you are part of the actual Geeksquad culture, made perfect sense. It just doesn't relate well to your average person.
Also, Buyback is still a plausable rip off. If you are lazy, then it makes sense to get it. I will use my rezound as an example though. Best Buy has the phone in the system for 650. In the first six months I would get back 325 back. If you held the phone like I did for 9 months, you'd get 40% of the phone back, so 260 dollars. Not counting that after 10 months it is 30%. If I sold my phone on swappa, ebay, what have you, including my extended battery, I could get about that much, or more, without having to pay an initial fee to get the ability to get that money back.
Also, people are stupid, and phones that are already s-off, and with a rooted rom sell for more money. Best buy doesn't trade in the extended battery, and it being s-off'd would kill its value, if the tech doing the trade in even knew how to check for that.
My S3 was working great until this week (right after the 14 days return window). Now WiFi is dropping, 4G is running at worse than 3G speeds, phone randomly shuts off, apps that worked fine previously now crash / lock the phone on a black screen. I hope I can just swap this back out for my Thunderbolt without any issues. Hopefully I can get a replacement on this. If the 2nd one has these issues, I'll go back to my Thunderbolt which has been rock-solid since I got it.
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thats weird. Me and two my friends recently switched to S3 and none of us have had issues with the phone.
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same here...no issues. whatsoever...
there are things that i dont like. .but they are tocuhwiz related.
heck i even dropped my S3 in a baby bath tub...(i have a thread about that with pics of it dissembled) & still works flawlessly...
however with all the verizon BS on there...my quadrant scores arent what i thought they would be/should be
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same here...no issues. whatsoever...
there are things that i dont like. .but they are tocuhwiz related.
heck i even dropped my S3 in a baby bath tub...(i have a thread about that with pics of it dissembled) & still works flawlessly...
however with all the verizon BS on there...my quadrant scores arent what i thought they would be/should be
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People have been getting over 5000 scores on my 100% bloated stock deodexed ROM. They have all the Verizon garbage on them.
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I'm not complaining about build quality, the speed of the phone, touchwiz, etc. My complaint is simply with what seems to be a slight lapse in quality control, which has affected me twice now, haha.
No biggie. I guess I'll just see what Best Buy says when I take it in.
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People have been getting over 5000 scores on my 100% bloated stock deodexed ROM. They have all the Verizon garbage on them.
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im interested in what & how you got those scores.
i come in consistently around 4200-4600 but i also have the free version so i dont know if thats causing it
My first phone was a pre order phone. For the lifebof me and Samsung and Verizon. We could not get the flipping GPS to find the phone. Both Verizon and Samsung tried to tell me that the phone needs the celular network to use GPS. I had to tell them that that is either impossible or that the phone is falsely advertising stand alone GPS. And if Samsung and Verizon allowed that to be that some one is in for a legal ride. I told them that I would never purchase a phone or any mobile communicqtion device without that option. Long story short they sent me a new one. And everything works perfectly. Well, with the exception of it freezing on me at times. This could be due to an over heating issue or just bad designe in the software. Though it has not happened in a while since I have frozen some of the Verizon and Samsung crap bloat. Specifficly Verizon. They know how to screw a good thing up. Also, I have this thing underclocked at 918MHz-1.134GHz. This helps a great deal because of wifi teather and bluetooth on in my car all day long. Now to find a charger that will let it more than just charge at a snails pace.
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I've read reports on the Internet of many users having issues with the Samsung Galaxy S3 such as small cracks appearing in the casing of the phone out of no where. Another thing is the weak signal strength this phone is known for. All the reports I could find were outdated and I really want to like this phone and purchase it.
I'd like to know if anyone knows if these problems have been fixed by Samsung.
Thanks in advance!
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I've read reports on the Internet of many users having issues with the Samsung Galaxy S3 such as small cracks appearing in the casing of the phone out of no where. Another thing is the weak signal strength this phone is known for. All the reports I could find were outdated and I really want to like this phone and purchase it.
I'd like to know if anyone knows if these problems have been fixed by Samsung.
Thanks in advance!
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easily the best phone ive ever owned.
no problems yet
Touchpadnoob said:
I've read reports on the Internet of many users having issues with the Samsung Galaxy S3 such as small cracks appearing in the casing of the phone out of no where. Another thing is the weak signal strength this phone is known for. All the reports I could find were outdated and I really want to like this phone and purchase it.
I'd like to know if anyone knows if these problems have been fixed by Samsung.
Thanks in advance!
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Signal has been top notch on mine.....Just as good as my wife's Rezound. Much much better then my GNEX!
Below 40% battery the signal becomes progressively weaker, noticably so, but no issues with calls, mostly manifests itself in data.
Otherwise, though, great signal. As I sit here in the middle of a state park far from anything. I travel a lot, neighborhood of a thousand interstate miles a week, and haven't dropped a call yet.
Device rocks, and haven't noticed any physical deterioration. As a smartphone you can't do any better on the market today in terms of quality, performance or features.
Worth getting the 32 gig model and slapping a 64 gig card in it. Nothing like having nearly 100 gigs of immediately available interactive storage.
4g lte is impressively fast.
one thing to remember is somebody will always have something to gripe about no matter what. that being said the s3 is by far the most solid device i have ever owned!
I've had two different Galaxy S3's on Verizon, and both have horrible data issues. Disconnects from data, and not gaining data back until reboot, slow data speeds when I have it, and signal bars constantly going from 1 to 2 to 3 to 4 to 3 to 2 to 3 to 4 etc....
The second phone has never been rooted or modified, and the first one I tried everything I could think of. So many ROMs, modems, and flashes, and nothing worked. Other Verizon phones nearby work just fine. Just my experience though.
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If you are referring to me then I was talking about the Galaxy S3. The OP was talking about the Galaxy S3 too.
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I only got 2 bars where I am at, but looking at my family's other phones, they are about the same in reception (razr droid) . Now my dad who lives out of state, is telling me that when he calls me, it goes straight to voice mail (i dont see any indication that he called) , so this is an issue im trying to figure out, but I have a custom rom and kernal. So hard to say what the issue is for me ( I also got a crack on the screen already from slippage the 2nd day I owned the phone, but its very minimal), happened because I didn't have a case at the time.
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The phone otherwise is awesome, Get some good protection for it, it is a must! I carry it in my pocket,but I do feel like if someone bumps up against my thigh that it could break.
I think people are to caught up in the bars. I never look at the bars. If my phone has 4G and I don't drop calls then there is no problems with the radio. I even get 4G in fringe areas where my GNEX did not.
Also, my wife's rezound can say she has 3 bars is a fringe areas but it still takes 10 minutes to
load a webpage.
Bars are a bunch of BS. Usage is what really counts.
Signal strength is what matters. I'm actually considering I might have a bad phone since it constantly loses data or drops to 1x in my apt, where the map shows full 4G coverage and my previous phone (Sprint) never had a single issue. Tested a friends Nexus and it had slow speeds but never lost a connection, and the Nexus is said to have really poor reception.
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Signal strength is what matters. I'm actually considering I might have a bad phone since it constantly loses data or drops to 1x in my apt, where the map shows full 4G coverage and my previous phone (Sprint) never had a single issue. Tested a friends Nexus and it had slow speeds but never lost a connection, and the Nexus is said to have really poor reception.
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First question are you rooted? if not you should get an update from Verizon with a new modem. If so go to the modem link and down the newest modem and flash it via Odin. I flashed mine and it seems to help with the single problem I was having. Also when you look at the bars I was told that if your data is on the bars you see is for your data when it is off the bars you see is for your voice.
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First question are you rooted? if not you should get an update from Verizon with a new modem. If so go to the modem link and down the newest modem and flash it via Odin. I flashed mine and it seems to help with the single problem I was having. Also when you look at the bars I was told that if your data is on the bars you see is for your data when it is off the bars you see is for your voice.
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I am a bit confused by this advice going around. I am rooted, and unlocked. I checked for root access a few times before posting this, and I can still do everything I could before. I have manually received the OTA update, and don't notice a difference in my root capabilities. Are you saying something was supposed to break once I updated?