Okay so I've always known my D2G was a little off with its signal strength especially how it represents it, and I know that all cell phones represent the number of bars based on signal strength differently. However as far as I understand it is still a cut and dry system within each phone, so for example -75 dBm should always be a certain number of bars on a phone correct? Yet my D2G does not seem to think this. I have only been carefully monitoring it today. However Right not is has been bouncing around -62 dMb at 0asu to -69 dBm at 0 asu. It increased from -69 to -62 and stayed at 2 bars the whole time for a while, now it is at -64 and is showing 1 bar. How can -64 be 1 bar is -62 was for a good 30 seconds holding 2 bars? Isn't -62 stronger? Also this morning it moved around -65 to -69 and 1-4 bars at random where the numbers seemed to have almost no correlation to the number of bars. Is this at all weird or am I just crazy? This really has me missing the T-mobile G1 which had much more normal signal strengths and made much better sense of them.
I have considered installing the Fission rom, but before I do that does anyone thing an SBF would be worthwhile to have a fresh install? Some people have claimed that seems to help with their phones, I was wondering if it might help with mine too.
Also as a side note, my phone's 3G speeds seem to drastically increase when the phone shows 4 bars of signal, download goes from maybe 600-900kbps up to 1.3-2.0mbps, regardless of what my phone says the signal strength is. However upload is always the same, so at 1-3 bars upload is always faster than download or close to it which seems weird to me.
One last example, my phone just in like 5 seconds went from -64 to -65 to -65 to -66 to -68 and the bars for those were 1 then 2 then 3 then 1 then 1. It makes no sense if the signal is getting weaker consistently for the bars to increase with each decrease then suddenly decrease.
Recently I found the CM7 option to change my signal meter to be displayed in DB rather than bars. I have found it very interesting as it gives me a much more accurate reading of my signal strength or lack there of.
When sitting at my desk my reading is -95 DBm ( terrible data coverage )
At the gym I get -63 DBm ( excellent data coverage, with streaming netflix over 3g / 4g )
I am thinking about trying some different radios to see if that makes a difference.
What kind of readings is everyone else getting?
So I live about 40 minutes out of Washington DC and my LTE has never been all that great, I never saw the big deal. I get about 1 mBps down and it drains battery incredibly fast. HSPA+ is basically just as fast and used less battery. However, this weekend I took a trip to Atlanta and I ran a speed test and got 3.5 mBps down and the battery drained at a very nice rate. I was pleasantly surprised. So just want to hear if LTE is actually as advertised for y'all. I'm on AT&T, so not sure how it will differ for you those of you outside of the US.
Sounds like your local LTE strength is weak. That will indeed kill your battery.
Most places I go, I get decent signal strength and at least 10 Mbps. Battery life is fine unless I get stuck in a dead spot.
My home town (Jefferson City Missouri) just turned on LTE at the beginning of the month. I average about 10Mbps down and my fastest has been about 25Mbps down. Battery life is slightly less than HSPA+, but not much worse.
It depends on the location. LTE is suppose support more connections effectively. However, a tower could be down. If you are getting different speeds in different locations then it ma lay be the tower. Also, you said you live 40mins away. That plays a factor. I live 45mijs away from Nashville, but that is because the drive is on the interstate going 70, not like down the street.
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In Melbourne Australia Telstra LTE is great.
Get around 30 mbps inbound and 18-20 mbps outbound.
Signal strength is 4 - 5 bars and battery drain is pretty much the same as with HSDPA
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Sounds like your local LTE strength is weak. That will indeed kill your battery.
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Yup, def sounds like OP is in a fringe reception area. I often get over 20 Mbps on LTE, and sometimes over 30 Mbps (depending on work or home location), and battery life is very good (often get close to 48 hours with low usage). But the LTE coverage in my area seems very good.
LTE has also done wonders for the data connection at my house. I'm almost always on WiFi at home, but when I've had to fall back to cell network data, it was absolutely awful on HSPA+. On HSPA+, I was getting really slow data speed, 1 Mbps at best, and often a fraction of that, with frequent dropouts just trying to browse webpages. Now on LTE, its rock solid and the speed is excellent (not as good as at my work, but over 15 Mbps).
Everyone's experience is going to be different, depending on location. Some people actually get comparable or even higher speeds on HSPA+, and better battery life. But they are probably not in good reception areas.
Let's not forget building structures, population, and weather. There is a lotbof factors that play a part in reception. I did a speed test on HSDPA plus, and I got 6mb up and 3 down. I haven't done it on LTE yet. But the speed seems faster than my WiFi when I do travel to Nashville.
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Let's not forget building structures, population, and weather. There is a lotbof factors that play a part in reception. I did a speed test on HSDPA plus, and I got 6mb up and 3 down. I haven't done it on LTE yet. But the speed seems faster than my WiFi when I do travel to Nashville.
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If I'm not mistaken, HSPA doesn't go that fast. Sounds like you got your test in megabits not megabytes. There's eight megabits in a megabyte.
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If I'm not mistaken, HSPA doesn't go that fast. Sounds like you got your test in megabits not megabytes. There's eight megabits in a megabyte.
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I was on my phone, and did not feel like going for the "+" logo. As you can see it says "HSPA plus." Also, I have the app set up to show MB, not MiB.
I have LTE turned off and i've noticed i get atleast an hour extra of screen time due to this.
Still am able to stream pandora on my hourly commute.
AT&T LTE is on and off in my area. I think they're testing it.
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I was on my phone, and did not feel like going for the "+" logo. As you can see it says "HSPA plus." Also, I have the app set up to show MB, not MiB.
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Alright, I just thought the max HSPA+ could go was 42 Mbps which is just over 5 mBps
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So I live about 40 minutes out of Washington DC and my LTE has never been all that great, I never saw the big deal. I get about 1 mBps down and it drains battery incredibly fast. HSPA+ is basically just as fast and used less battery. However, this weekend I took a trip to Atlanta and I ran a speed test and got 3.5 mBps down and the battery drained at a very nice rate. I was pleasantly surprised. So just want to hear if LTE is actually as advertised for y'all. I'm on AT&T, so not sure how it will differ for you those of you outside of the US.
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I'm on att in Portland Oregon area. LTE everywhere and screams, connection is far quicker down and up on LTE vs my home broadband WiFi , even out does my laptop streaming Netflix...
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I just got lte where I live in Alabama and I'm getting 25 down and about 7 or 8 up
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I live in Arlington, VA 3 miles from DC and I'm getting 22 down, 10 up. My battery life is great on LiquidSmooth 4.2.2. You must be just a little outside the LTE coverage area.
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Coming from previously a Galaxy S4. I have to say OPT WiFi range is excellent as it even gets coverage from previously a blindspot at home
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Excellent wifi coverage
Multiple wifi zones are covered and speed is consistent across all bands
Wi-Fi strength is ok, but it has 5Ghz Wi-Fi too!
Too bad that my router can't use both Ghz frequency.
Only 1 band ac wifi not dual
Coming from Nexus 4 and OPO I'm very disappointed with OPT wi-fi range. While before in my bed reception was good, now I'm almost always in LTE 'cause wi-fi isn't caught!
Wifi Range and reception is bad compared to Xiaomi phones with Dual band
WiFi on the OPT is amazing, my router is at the front of my house and my bedroom at the very back, most phones can only just pick up a WiFi signal in the bedroom or in my back yard, usually it's better to turn WiFi off because the signal is weak and the speed it slow.
However the OPT holds a stronger signal with no loss in speed
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WiFi on the OPT is amazing, my router is at the front of my house and my bedroom at the very back, most phones can only just pick up a WiFi signal in the bedroom or in my back yard, usually it's better to turn WiFi off because the signal is weak and the speed it slow.
However the OPT holds a stronger signal with no loss in speed
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I can only agree! Best Wifi dBm i have seen so far! But 2G and 3G is not that good...
Facebook shows offline
I am on WiFi most of the time. Sometimes Facebook starts showing up like its offline even if connected to WiFi. I have to force close the app and then restart it to work. Not sure if that's a software glitch. Can anyone help?
My house has 50/20 Mbps internet. I'm using dual band WiFi, 5GHz on one router and 2.4GHz on another access point, both sit at the same location.
Previously I've been using 2.4GHz when I'm on 2nd floor with no problem gets about 30 Mbps when doing speed test, which is acceptable by me.
I'm not sure when but maybe within this few months, speed when I'm using on 2nd floor drops to 5 Mbps or sometimes even low as 0.3 Mbps. My iphone 4S still gets 20-30 Mbps.
Signal strength is the same as before about -70 to -80 dBm
It has no problem when I'm in line of sight from the access point.
Has anyone been experiencing this? And any solution
Thank you
PS. I still haven't reset the whole phone yet, but I have tried resetting network settings