So, i'm switching to AT&T from Verizon to save some cash. The AT&T map for my area shows lte everywhere but I've heard from some people it gets pretty bad. I want to test things out while I'm in my 14 day grace period. Aside from going around town running a speed test, is there any app or anything that might do this better and/or give me a better idea of dead spots etc?
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This is going to end up being more of a rant then anything else I have a feeling because I know the basic answer to my question so, just a fair warning.
I live in the north eastern part of Pennsylvanian right next to New York and New Jersey and my reception with my Fuze is godawful I get one maybe two bars of edge inside the house and have to go outside to make any kind of a call. My wife has a propel and my son a Balckberry that all get two to three bars on same plan as my phone. Now I would expect a phone like the Fuze that is know to be more of a high end phone to have comparable service to a propel but surprise its ab out 15 times worse. Now I have flashed the radio with a few blackstone radios and that kinda helped but not much, still cant make a call in the house. So I guess my question is this, Is there anyone around the same area that has had any luck with different radios? I'm going to keep flashing to see what I can come up with but I'm really about feed up with AT&T, because they are crippling an amazing device.
Hey all,
Just want to check to see if anyone else has crappy data coverage and rates in airports around the nation. In many airports, data becomes unusable due to timing out, etc.
I only really have had decent service at 2 airports - Denver and Salt Lake. It sucks at Baltimore (home airport), Washington/Dulles, LA, Chicago/O'Hare, and Houston/Bush. Been hit or miss in Las Vegas.
Voice calls and text work fine. Data just really sucks and it's annoying.
I'm curious to see if this is just AT&T being crap in those locations as their network is too heavily used, or whether it's just the Captivate.
I'm using DG's latest Cognition Rom, but it's happened with earlier versions of Captivate and Perception.
Thanks,
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I wish I travelled enough to actually offer an opinion. But I've noticed a pretty fair lack of free wifi at most airports I've been in. Pretty appalling actually. But in the ones I've been laid over: ATL, Charlotte, Memphis, Houston..the 3G seems to be no problem.
Salt Lake has free wifi airport wide - great if you're flying on Delta. Most airports seem to be stuck with Boingo or T-Mobile.
In Houston, it seemed to bounce between 3G, Edge, and GPRS, and the bouncing was fairly constant. It did it the times I was there the last couple months, so unfortunately, I can't say it's a one off. Just curious - what modem and ROM are you using?
LAX has mediocre service at most of the terminals. The best reception I got while doing work there was in the international terminal, and then only on the departure levels. You're mostly f'd on the arrival levels with some places that offer service. Was like that on my Aria too, just ATT being ATT imo.
DFW is pretty good
Yeah, I'm often wonder if it's AT&T being AT&T. It's fine for the most part, but it's really irritating to see it bouncing between H->3G->E and sometimes G and back just to try to maintain a data connection. It's gotten to the point where's it's almost unusable at most airports. Irritating for what was once AT&T's flagship Droid device.
I'm debating whether to hang on until AT&T goes to LTE or try switching to Verizon again. /sigh
Just got in the new Samsung Nexus S from Sprint and I've noticed some major issues in reception versus the HTC Evo from Sprint as well. I'm seeing a 2+ bar difference in the exact location sitting next to the Evo on the same Sprint network.
Is anybody having this issue? Or does anybody know of a fix.
I have the latest firmware (suggested fix by Sprint) and have seen several complaints about it on other less developer friendly forums.
If I can't come up with a solution soon, I think I'll have to get an Evo. But if you guys can understand, I'd prefer to keep the phone that will get timely updates.
Thanks ahead of time for any suggestions!
You can't compare signal across different devices based on "bars". Check the actual signal strength in Menu > Settings > About Phone.
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I know you need dB... As soon as I can get the Evo next to me again for a comparison, I will post.
I'm a tech savvy guy, run a computer building company and build websites. I even develop some entry-level apps for a few clients (yes entry-level).
If one googles "spring nexus s reception," they'll find that this issue is quite common. I'm just curious as to whether it's hopeless or not.
I know I can petition for the Airave with Sprint and can at least get decent service at home.
It just seems peculiar to me that Google would endorse an inferior product. I live in a major Metropolitan area (DMA has it as a top 25 market - for those who aren't in the media business, that means it's one of the top 25 sized cities in the country). And this phone gets dismal reception.
Fact is, Evo does great in my house, Nexus S does not. I've heard some pretty bad reviews with the Galaxy S line of hardware so I'm figuring it's worth moving to the Evo.
To be honest, this phone is far superior (at the moment) with responsiveness and usability but if a phone can't operate well at being a phone, it's a waste of money. Especially if the hardware is inferior (phone-wise) to most of what HTC released a year ago. I love having a mini-computer in my pocket but I did aim at having a working phone.
Thoughts? Suggestions? School me? I will post the exact numbers when they again are available, until then, please only offer up friendly advice or questions. I am willing to try anything before taking this thing back.
You have not really described your issue. Do you have dropped calls or what?
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I'm having issues with the Sprint Nexus S reception as well. Although my home location on Sprint's coverage map lists my area from medium to strong with 4G available right around the corner from my house I have dismal reception with the Nexus S. I had a trial EVO for a few weeks and reception was much better in the same area. If I try to call the Nexus S I often go right to voicemail, I'm told calls out (when I can) are choppy, data signal is often listed as 1x as opposed to 3g. Is it just this particular phone? Should I go to a Sprint store to have it tested?
There is atl least one thread over at the Sprint Message boards about bad reception on the Nexus S.
At work we have a repeater and the signal still only shows at one or two bars most of the time but data speeds seemed fine to me and I had no problem with making and getting calls.
No one else is having this issue?
This isn't the first post about this subject. I understand and agree. I'm not 100% sure about this when it comes to cell phones but different companies with different radios will give you different signals. If this is the same as two way radios, there's no standard on say how much signal equals one bar on the meter. Even the programs that give the signal strength in numbers, aren't universally accurate. When it comes to received signal, its how you can hear it, not really what the meter says. That number can easily be manipulated. A receiver sensitivity can be adjusted too but there are things that are thrown out too. Crank up the receive and you get more noise than distinguishing signal and adjacent frequency rejection goes to crap. You can work the receiver to have good rejection and sensitivity but you are making it more deaf too.
What I'm getting at is don't always go by what the signal meter says and take it as 100% truth. It is a good indicator of signal but not absolutely 100% accurate.
I am sitting about twenty feet from my router and yet the meter is telling me 50% signal which I know is bull****.
are you up to date?
Yobye, are you on 2.3.4? I have heard the update fixes some people's signal/radio issues.
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I'm having issues with the Sprint Nexus S reception as well. Although my home location on Sprint's coverage map lists my area from medium to strong with 4G available right around the corner from my house I have dismal reception with the Nexus S. I had a trial EVO for a few weeks and reception was much better in the same area. If I try to call the Nexus S I often go right to voicemail, I'm told calls out (when I can) are choppy, data signal is often listed as 1x as opposed to 3g. Is it just this particular phone? Should I go to a Sprint store to have it tested?
There is atl least one thread over at the Sprint Message boards about bad reception on the Nexus S.
At work we have a repeater and the signal still only shows at one or two bars most of the time but data speeds seemed fine to me and I had no problem with making and getting calls.
No one else is having this issue?
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Ditto on this. Have all the latest updates. Think it may be time to trade in for the Evo.
I am on 2.3.4. I brought home another Sprint phone from work - a Sanyo Taho and got about the same terrible reception despite the fact I'm in a Sprint Best Coverage area on their map. I miss and drop calls and can't get voice or data connection - send mms, etc from my home. I've contacted Sprint about the tower strength in my neighborhood.
I'm thinking of going to T-Mobile and getting the HTC One S, but I'm wondering if anyone in my area (Tempe-Phoenix) has trouble with dropped calls, slow download speeds (Edge when they should be getting 3G/4G speeds), etc.
Anyone recommend?
I am in the Gilbert area and have no issues. Speeds are extremely fast. I work in Phoenix at the boarder to Tempe and I do have some issues with speeds but never dropped a call. I think my speed issues are due to the fact that I work in the large manufacturing facility at 52nd St. and McDowell. Once I start leaving work, my speeds pick back up.
Thanks ihateusernames. Makes me feel better about the transfer if we decide to do it.
Hi xjedi,
I am Melissa... I am new located in Tempe AZ from Medeast... It's beautiful city... and welcome to the forum... It's a nice place to meet some nice people.
So does the factory unlocked oneplus one work good with tmobiles 4G lte bands, I currently have the att note 4 and has terrible connectivity and signal strength with tmobiles network never had issues with tmobiles phones them selves had great signal till I bought a factory unlocked att note 4 it works but the signal is bad, I want the one plus one but anyone use it with tmobile and how is the signal compared to a tmobile phone?
It does work well. Not as well as the TMO S5, it doesn't have all the bands. That being said, my LTE speeds have dropped to around 20mbs in certian places were they once might have been 35mbs., you'll have to do a speed test to even notice. I live in middle of nowhere AL, this is a rest i just ran. tl/dr OPO works great on TMO
Cool seems good, another thing is the signal strength I use my phone a lot and this att note 4 hardly ever gets signal at the border I work by the Otay border. my other tmobile phones had excellent signal.
So signal wise is it almost the same as tmo s5 ? Let's say in certain areas where you used to get very low signal with the s5 does the oneplus one still get signal? I almost never get full bars unless I'm outside with my tmobile phones I would literally almost have full bars or close to full bars anywhere and that's what I'm looking for.
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Cool seems good, another thing is the signal strength I use my phone a lot and this att note 4 hardly ever gets signal at the border I work by the Otay border. my other tmobile phones had excellent signal.
So signal wise is it almost the same as tmo s5 ? Let's say in certain areas where you used to get very low signal with the s5 does the oneplus one still get signal? I almost never get full bars unless I'm outside with my tmobile phones I would literally almost have full bars or close to full bars anywhere and that's what I'm looking for.
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I travel for work a LOT and what i have found is where i got poor LTE on my S5 i now get HSPA+ on thr OPO . basicly same speed though. Again im in the US. I have no idea what border you taking about and being New Years, I'm not looking it up . I still get signal where I always have.