I never had this issue with any of my previous phones. Namely, my location is displayed on my various apps (like 1 Weather) as the source of my WiFi network. I work in Irving, TX but our network hub is in Frisco, TX, and that's what displays for my location. I turn off WiFi, and it locates me correctly. The same thing happened when I was at Texas Motor Speedway a little over a week ago. I got on their WiFi network, and it showed my location as Martinsville, NC.
Is this normal? I've honestly never seen this before.
EDIT: I'm not making this up: just picked up my phone, and it showed my location as Pecos, TX, then switched to Irving, TX. I think my phone is possessed.
This is still a thing. Yesterday, my phone thought it was somewhere in California. Today, it's switching between Las Vegas and Paradise, NV. Every once in a while, it remembers I'm in Irving, TX. Am I seriously the only person with this problem?
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Okay recently my phone has had some really bad signal issues in parts that I always had the best signal. Now it roams and sometimes has no signal at all. I have the Heinz Rom loaded on my phone. One thing is though I live about 40-50 miles away from Joplin where the tornado recently hit. Well in Joplin was the main central hub for U.S. Cellular in southwest Missouri. Is it a chance that the loss of that building in the tornado could have effected the signals around Joplin areas.
Yes it could be that. I had a similar issue in are area when there where floods n high storms the tower cells were damaged and noticed low bars
Well i just got word that the reason why signal is messed up. The joplin US Cellular store was the main hub for the connections of the towers where I live. So when it got hit the towers are only working partially now till they find a fix for it :/
I thought I had my weak wi-fi problem licked, by using "wi-fi best performance" in the settings.This is my second Sensation, I took one back for awful wi-fi and speaker, this one no better even after discovering the "best performace" setting.
I first took the sensation to a Mickey D's nearby, as I know they have wi-fi. Not a blip. I tried with and w/o "best performance", nothing, nada, I parked right next to where customers would sit, as well as tried a couple other areas in the lot. Nothing at all when I scanned.
I then went to another McD's. Pretty much same thing, even though one spot in the lot, I got 1 bar/poor, but not stable to make a connection. I assumed it was theirs, but maybe not,didn't say Wayport or attws. I also parked as close as I could to a sports bar that has wi-fi, again not a blip. I was inside that sports bar the other night, and even though it seemed to get a decent wi-fi signal inside, kept saying "page not found". If I used 2/3/4 G (actually only 2G was working in there), I could get web pages.
I came home after my first trip to McD's, grabbed my laptop, my Sensation, as well as my original HTC Dash, which I decided to try a unused SIM card in. I couldn't make calls of course, but I could connect to wi-fi at my house.
So I set sail with all 3 devices. I went back to the first McD's I tried a half hour earlier, and parked again right outside where the customers sit. Good to excellent signal on the laptop. A consistent 1 bar signal on the Dash, but stable and functional, and it definitely showed McD's sign in page - attws hotspot plus a Wayport icon showing also. The Sensation - not even a hint of wi-fi service again.
Any updates or hacks that will make the wi-fi more normal?
Or else the thing is going back. If I have to eat $50 for the T-Mo store restocking fee, so be it, but now I'm reading people are getting phones from Best Buy and Costo (I assume Sam's Club maybe too) and getting pretty long periods to try them out and no restocking fee. So I may do that. The T-Mo store is 14 days, and I had the first Sensation 7 days, plus the new one 4 so far. Thanks.
I agree 100%. My wife's Vibrant gets 3 bars strong from my bedroom (where the wifi is) to my living room, my Vibrant only gets one bar, and often just disconnects all together???? WTF???? Not so Sensational right? I hope a better ROM or some kind of fix becomes available soon.
Look guys, there are already dozens of threads on this. Can you repost this in one of those?
Just trying to avoid clutter
Thanks guys
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My phone has dropped data randomly two times this morning. I could only get it back by doing a switch to airplane mode. Anyone else with this problem? Is this a phone issue that I need to get a new one?
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Mine has dropped several times. when coming to and from work. It seems to always happen when it connects to wifi. when i leave work and its wifi, i lose all signal entirely.
I don't use wifi though that's the thing. I called ATT and they said it may need a new simcard......which this was. So I swung by and got one and the lady at the store said that my phone may be going bad! LOL wow I love how they train their people.
YES. Most definitely, this is the same problem I'm experiencing. I had another thread posted about how the 4G icon was lit but there was no signal. The icon now seems to be a little more accurate...But still.
At home I switch on WiFi so I don't run up my data but if I look at the settings for mobile network the status underneath in gray text keeps showing that it connects and disconnects. Endlessly. The phone isn't moving. My wife has signal on her iPad and iPhone (I know those are 3G).
I have to turn on airplane mode and then off...Then mobile network on and it seems to help a little. However it's still super spotty.
This is pretty much only indoors but I don't know. I'm going to go around town and try it out. On their coverage map I'm in a big zone of LTE coverage. Outside I have seen 30Mbps on LTE using speedtest.net app. So I don't know. I thought it was very odd given the houses here in CA don't exactly have super thick insulation and every other cell phone (Sprint, my wife's on AT&T, etc.) seem to be AOK. It's just this new One X that just can't stay connected to the 4G.
Going under settings > about > network ...
I see my signal strength....some readings are...
-109 dBm 4 asu
-101 dBm 6 asu
-107 dBm 2 asu
I have no idea what values I should be seeing - what is considered good?
Mobile network type says HSPA. Service state says in service. Icon up top is 4G with one bar. If I turn off WiFi I could not load a web page or anything. That's what annoys me. I usually see like 2 bars and that's fine...But if I see the damn bars and the 4G icon....I sure as hell expect the data to work, even if a little slower.
It's just SUPER flaky. Again outside seems to help but to be honest I haven't sat and watched it. For all I know it could be connecting and disconnecting over and over outside as well but just have a stronger connection when it is actually "on."
I'm annoyed and speechless. I'm not in the boonies. I've never experienced anything like this before. I'm actually at my desk in front of a window. Uh...WTF?
Just picked up lunch and watched the data while on the trip.
This phone is unusable. It's gotta go back. Well, I guess it's welcome back Sprint. Sooooo disappointed.
All I got was HSPA. The only time I get LTE and those fast 30Mbps down is at night time. AT&T is such a joke and their network is NOT ready for this phone.
I'm in Palo Alto, CA. It's not the middle of no where. This is embarrassing. Either that or somehow I have a defective phone or SIM card or something I have no clue here...It's really really bad and I'm obviously not the only one.
3 days and it's been horrible, the only reason why I didn't notice sooner is because I've been using the phone on WiFi most the time.
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Just picked up lunch and watched the data while on the trip.
This phone is unusable. It's gotta go back. Well, I guess it's welcome back Sprint. Sooooo disappointed.
All I got was HSPA. The only time I get LTE and those fast 30Mbps down is at night time. AT&T is such a joke and their network is NOT ready for this phone.
I'm in Palo Alto, CA. It's not the middle of no where. This is embarrassing. Either that or somehow I have a defective phone or SIM card or something I have no clue here...It's really really bad and I'm obviously not the only one.
3 days and it's been horrible, the only reason why I didn't notice sooner is because I've been using the phone on WiFi most the time.
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how fast is the HSPA you're getting?
1-3.56Mbps down and 0.04-1.03Mbps up.
Out on the street downtown.
Best I've ever had was at night on LTE 30Mbps down and like 17Mbps up.
All to the same test server. Trying servers several states away it varied, sometimes I'd even see 20Mbps down to a far away server.
Again this is all WHEN I'm actually connected to the data network.
The thing just can't hold a connection. Constantly dropped.
edit-- ok so right now same time of day, servers, etc. Sprint's 3G is a little slower, but at least I'm not getting dropped.
and on a side note, i got a REALLY helpful lvl1 tech support lady on the phone. much better experience than i thought. there was an issue in the area before. but basically i'm going to give it another shot. if no good tomorrow, swap for a new phone. they'll call me back friday and we'll see... crossing my fingers.
Any update on this? I've got a new One X and work night shifts twice a week. I've notived tonight that the data drops when the phone is idle and obviously nothing pushes.
There's got to be a way of turning this off. I can see why HTC would call it a feature, but there has to be a flag or a switch somewhere....
I've finally got my brand new OPO setup, so I moved my SIM over from my old phone (SGS 3). It looks like I mostly have full bars, but it says OFF NETWORK.
I've got AT&T & live out in the country with marginal reception. I have a microcell to get better signal in the house. I tried unplugging the microcell to see if it was connected there & just displaying something weird, but it stayed off network with full bars.
Heading into town to get a case & going to swing by AT&T to snag a new SIM as well as checking on signal & connectivity. I was able to place a test call just fine.
Any thoughts? New SIM? Something else messed up?
Hummm... Half way to town (wife driving) & it finally picked up AT&T. It might just be poor reception in my area, although my SGS 3 did better. Doesn't explain the lack of microcell connectivity though.
Got home to full bars of OFF NETWORK, fired back up the microcell. I got a good connection to the microcell according to the phone within a few minutes. Things now seem to be working as expected.
I'm pretty sure this is a network issue, however I have a couple of friends on 3 too that haven't experienced this problem.
The only thing that makes me ask the question here is that this is occurring in 3 different areas.
Since Saturday night at my home location (Bagshot, GU19) I lost all network connectivity. Thinking nothing of it as it will probably be resolved by morning, plus the fact that 3's customer support line was shut I went to bed expecting it to be up.
Sunday morning I woke up and still nothing. I went round to my partners which is in Bracknell (RG12) i had network but only 1/2 H+ not the usual 3/4 bars of 4G. Fluctuating like mad! So I rang them up after checking with my partner's sister as she is on 3 (she had no issues) i spoke to them about this issue and they said they were aware of an issue and it had been fixed 2 hours ago.
Again I left it and waited as they said they had fixed the issue. Service picked up to 3/4 bars of 4G like normal. Went home later that evening and my phone was fluctuating between no service and full 4 bars of 3G (H+) signal (there's no 4G in my area yet). Again I thought as they said it was fixed it may still be throwing a bit of a fit and will be fine in the morning.
Woke up this morning to no service whatsoever. A bit pissed off I drove to work (Farnborough, GU14) and i still have no service. Now I don't know if there is an issue with my phone or not but again a colleague has a 3 sim and his is fine. This is what leads me to think there may be an issue with my Nexus 5.
Any ideas of what I should do ?
Edit 18/08/14 @ 13:30 - Went outside of my work for lunch across the road to the shops, funnily enough got signal while outdoors and then lost again when indoors. Looking more like a network issue ?
I live in Manchester, and I'm working in Macclesfield right now, experiencing the same issue, same carrier as well. I think it might be a network issue, but I've started using the Nexus 5 two days ago, so I'm not sure.
So after one of my colleagues let me put my sim in his phone and vice versa we discovered that for no reason my phone now won't pick up the 3 network and my sim is indeed functioning properly.
Looks like my 1st RMA on Nexus 5.
Oh and to top the bad news off I lost my wallet....