Hello,
I know I'm dealing with an older phone, but I figured I'd ask just in case anyone might have a solution for this.
At my work location, which is in a relatively urban area with excellent signal coverage, my Verizon SIII shows nearly full 4G LTE signal, but routinely gets super slow connectivity, as confirmed when using media streaming apps or Speedtest (less than 1mbps). I had a recent opportunity to do back to back comparisions using my SIM in both a Note 3 and a Note 4, and they got BLAZING fast speeds in the exact same location (20+ mbps).
Any thoughts on why my SIII would get such slower connectivity? Is there anything I can do to try to improve my speeds?
My SIII otherwise works fine. I'm sure there's newer technology and better radios in the Note 3 and Note 4, but to me, it seems that 4G LTE would be 4G LTE on any device in the exact same location.
By the way, this is even outside with no building interference.
Thanks so much!
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I know this is a question, but it's also the only Skyrocket forum. Sorry...
Does the Skyrocket get straight 3G reception? The AT&T Vivid does not. H+ and above work great, but in straight "H" areas the Vivid reverts to edge. I'm considering returning the Vivid and getting a Skyrocket because of this. Also, how's the battery life on the Skyrocket? The Vivid's is abysmal.
Thanks!!
Both the Vivid and Skyrocket work on 2G, 3G and LTE.
When the indicator says 4G without the LTE under it you are on 3G/UMTS/H/H+ whatever...
If you lose the 4G then you are on 2G/GSM/EDGE.
The LTE indicator only works for data. When you make a voice call the LTE will go away because the Ue falls back to 3G or even 2G if necessary. You can still talk and surf at the same time, but it will be at 2G or 3G speeds depending on where you fallback.
Thanks for the reply!
Unfortunately, that's not the way my Vivid is working. I have confirmed that my Vivid drops to Edge in several areas that my HD2 retains 3G. Plenty of bars, so good signal. It's just that the Vivid doesn't seem to stay on 3G in less than H+ areas. Lots of people reporting the same issue.
As far as talking and surfing simultaneously on edge/2G: Maybe it's different in your area, but getting an "E" ALWAYS coincides with failure to surf and talk and the same time here. I do believe you need 3G to do that.
What I'm looking for is a first hand report from a Skyrocket user about 3G reception in less than an H+ area.
Thanks!
Nakel said:
Thanks for the reply!
Unfortunately, that's not the way my Vivid is working. I have confirmed that my Vivid drops to Edge in several areas that my HD2 retains 3G. Plenty of bars, so good signal. It's just that the Vivid doesn't seem to stay on 3G in less than H+ areas. Lots of people reporting the same issue.
As far as talking and surfing simultaneously on edge/2G: Maybe it's different in your area, but getting an "E" ALWAYS coincides with failure to surf and talk and the same time here. I do believe you need 3G to do that.
What I'm looking for is a first hand report from a Skyrocket user about 3G reception in less than an H+ area.
Thanks!
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At the basement of our office for supplies, I revert to 4G on my Skyrocket. Once I go upstairs, LTE comes back. I can confirm making a phone call and surfing the web in the basement on pure 4G (3G+).
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At the basement of our office for supplies, I revert to 4G on my Skyrocket. Once I go upstairs, LTE comes back. I can confirm making a phone call and surfing the web in the basement on pure 4G (3G+).
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Thanks! My Vivid works great on 4G too. My problem is that it drops to Edge in areas where my HD2 stays on 3G. I'm not sure why; some people are reporting the Vivid doesn't recieve pure 3G. I have no idea what--if any--the difference is between 3G and 3G+.
How's the battery lfe on your Skyrocket?
Yeah, my bad...you can't talk and surf at the same time on 2G/EDGE.
And sadly I have great coverage at my house. And I have not had my Samsung long enough to compare it to the Vivid for reception or battery life. But when you fire up these big screens and start hitting the LTE juice it can really drop.
I am not sure what people are saying about "pure 3G". All the H/H+ is just for data. I only know of 1 flavor of 3G that supports voice calls.
I went from the Droid Razr when I found had good LTE reception at my house to the Galaxy Nexus which was terrible. After that, I got the Rezound which brought back the good LTE reception, about 10Mbps every time. Then the iPhone 4S which obviously doesn't have 4G. Then I got the Droid Charge which got me about ~10Mbps on 4G.
I always had 4/5 bars on my Droid Charge, at times I would have 3/5 and my LTE speeds were fast but I just got the Galaxy S III today and my LTE speeds are way, way down. I usually only get ~4Mbps down now and upload speeds have decreased as well. Ping also rose pretty dramatically.
Signal strength on the Droid Charge was usually about -85db and right now the GS3 is reading -111db. The radio in the phone is definitely inferior to the ones in the Rezound, Razr and Charge.
For reference, I'm 1.78 miles away from the Verizon cell phone tower. Is anyone else experiencing a drop in signal quality? I remember it was a pretty big deal with the Galaxy Nexus.
I have the same question... curious how VZW SGS3 radios / network connectivity are in comparison to Verizon Galaxy Nexus.
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I have the same question... curious how VZW SGS3 radios / network connectivity are in comparison to Verizon Galaxy Nexus.
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I've had both home and they appear to be the same because they perform similarly, which is not a good thing. I have noticed that the phone does allow for simultaneous voice and data over 3G which is different from Verizon's Galaxy Nexus, I'm always in 3G on the first floor of my house unfortunately.
Agree, if the radios perform similarly.... that's not a good thing. Appreciate this feedback.
Its not exactly a "scientific" test but I had full 4G on the SGS3 while my friend next to me had 2 bars on his Nexus.
I just tested this today with my Thunderbolt running a very old GB radio version against my SGS3.
Thunderbolt gets 3 bars, SGS3 only has one at my house. Did two speed tests inside, and one outside. All three times the TB had almost exactly double the Mbps down of the SGS3. Twice the SGS3 failed to start the upstream test citing communication issues. The time it did complete, the TB again was twice the speed.
Pretty disappointing to say the least. What's more disappointing is I only get 4-5Mbps down these days with the TB, while the SGS3 was only getting 2-2.5Mbps down. Little over a year ago when I got my TB, I'd always get 11mbps+ down at my house. So looking like the network is getting pretty saturated in my area these days.
I've been on vacation since before I got my SGS3, so we'll see how it goes at work when I return tomorrow. LTE signal is better there, on the TB anyway. Not a big deal at my house since I have FIOS 75/35 internet, but it will suck if the SGS3 gets poor speeds all over the city.
Well it's good to know that I'm not crazy then. It MAY be better than the Nexus but it's still not great.
I'm in an area that's pretty new to LTE. Where I sit now, I have 4 bars and with a speed test have seen speeds at around 41Mbps down and 13Mbps up. My coworker with his Droid 4 gets about half of the speed I do. I can't test my Thunderbolt right now (no microSIM adapter yet), but before activating my GS3, I was getting around 26Mbps on speed tests from this same location.
On my Nexus 4 I used to get LTE in my office. Granted I had a hybrid radio installed on that.
With the Nexus 5 I can pull 3-4 bars of H and H+. Anyone else notice this. Funny how the "uncertified" phone for LTE gets a better signal.
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On my Nexus 4 I used to get LTE in my office. Granted I had a hybrid radio installed on that.
With the Nexus 5 I can pull 3-4 bars of H and H+. Anyone else notice this. Funny how the "uncertified" phone for LTE gets a better signal.
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It's happening to me too, brother. I too had Nexus 4 that was a champ at keeping an LTE signal while I was within LTE coverage, but this Nexus 5 treats LTE like it has cooties or something. I feel like I have to demonstrate to the Nexus 5 that I have LTE by going to the secret dialer menu and selecting LTE Only and then switch back to LTE/GSM. However, if LTE gets to 2 bars or less, the phone switches back to HSPA+ and stays there. Some suggest that this saves power, but I call BS on that. I really did not notice a difference in my Nexus 4's battery life when I enabled LTE--it seemed the same to me.
On my N4, a low LTE signal would be faster than HSPA at full strength. I want my N5 to try harder and I have been souring these forums to see if there is some sort of fix. I'm going to try and get a new SIM and see if that fixes anything.
I have the same problem. Great signal for HSPA but bad on LTE. Did you try a new sim card? Any fix out there?
Can somebody please help me figure out why I am getting poor XLTE speeds? In a couple different legit VZW stores I have played with the S6 and also G4 on display and speed tests there are pulling 75mbps down and even higher than that on a few tests yet my S6 doesn't seem to get any speed tests higher than the speeds I was seeing on my Galaxy S3......30-35mbps down at best. I also have noticed my dBm isn't nearly as strong as my S3 pretty much at all times. Driving right by a known VZW tower this morning I was getting -85 to -90 dBm LTE signal when with my S3 I would be getting -55 to -65 dBm LTE signal.
I am currently not rooted, running Build and Baseband AOC3. Will rooting make a difference? What about AOE2, is that build and/or modem significantly better? Also I currently do NOT have Advanced Calling enabled, will enabling that give me better speeds?
I apparently am missing something. This phone operates very quick imo but the antenna is a joke it seems., unless I am missing something incredibly obvious?
Any help on improving my speeds would be much appreciated. Thank you!
I hear you. I have been very disappointed in my S6 connection speed also. I am in 3g in a lot of places my old HTC DNA never was. I am also rooted running clean rom. So rooting will not help the weak signal.
wtgvr4me03 said:
I hear you. I have been very disappointed in my S6 connection speed also. I am in 3g in a lot of places my old HTC DNA never was. I am also rooted running clean rom. So rooting will not help the weak signal.
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It's ticking me off. Such a great fast device otherwise but the antenna blows and evidently there's no fix for it.
My understanding is that Verizon stores have a mini tower in their stores to shore what the network is capable of (or to get you to use their service) whichever way you look at it. However IRL the network has hundreds or thousands of other devices connected to each tower which slows down speeds dramatically. I live in a bigger city but I'm driving all day and when I'm home I have 4-5 bars but dismal speeds where if I'm in a smaller city I can have 2-3 bars and have great speeds.
I have Straight talk currently with Ascend Mate2, and I do enjoy LTE speeds as they are much faster and definitely more consistent than my old hspa+ phone. The allure of this screen size may make me want to change my mind though. Can anyone detail if this will worth with ATT HSPA+ network as (maybe what connections it can use on t-mobile as well)
Also a slight unrelated note, are there any phones this large or greater than 6.5/6.7 that work with US LTE or definitely going to be released in the US soon? I read somewhere the lenovo phab plus might be but only seen that in one article.
I have a DAV-703L variant of the p8max and can confirm HSPA+ working on at&t's network. No LTE but from my experience I have noticed any horrible slow downs since most people have upgraded to LTE phones so the network isnt as congested as it once was. Here is a speed test done inside my house during "peak" usage time in this area. Speed usually sits around 7-8mbps up but wanted to show a worse case scenario, but even with those speeds non hd youtube, web browsing, pandora have zero issues.
Can't configure hspa to work on T-Mobile maybe I should switch to at&t