Anyone have any ideas as to why all of a sudden I have lost 75% signal strength? Everyone else is still at full strength outdoors, while I'm struggling with 2 bars. Indoors 2 bars for them will result in 1/2 bar for me...any ideas?
I upgraded the radio (as I was using my signature radio) loaded 1.14.25.35 and same results...
With all the registry edits going on, i was curious to know if anyone has came upon one to keep the battery and signal meters display on all the time instead of having to touch the top of the screen?
Anyone else noticed this? In areas of med to low LTE signal (-109 dBm), there are times when something locks up inside the radio and Signal Strength under Status will never change again no matter where I move the phone. During this funky mode, the battery is dropping rapidly during idle... Maybe 10% per hour. Something is wrong. During this same time android battery history shows yellow medium signal and voice calls work fine. There is also no runaway process cpu ussage or awake time. The only thing wrong and drawing too much juice is radio. If I toggle airplane mode or toggle wifi off/on the problem is solved for a while. I have VRALF2 firmware.
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Anyone else noticed this? In areas of med to low LTE signal (-109 dBm), there are times when something locks up inside the radio and Signal Strength under Status will never change again no matter where I move the phone. During this funky mode, the battery is dropping rapidly during idle... Maybe 10% per hour. Something is wrong. During this same time android battery history shows yellow medium signal and voice calls work fine. There is also no runaway process cpu ussage or awake time. The only thing wrong and drawing too much juice is radio. If I toggle airplane mode or toggle wifi off/on the problem is solved for a while. I have VRALF2 firmware.
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I have the same problem. Have went through many sim cards and factory resets. After 5 phone I finally have one that holds the signal a little better and does not go into this "funky mode". With the previous 4 (white 32gig) verizon phone I would burn through a battery in 6 hours at work. It would start with a drop in signal strengh at around -93 or so. Nothing would fix it. I finally got a blue 32gig and it seems to hold the signal to around -99. I don't know if I got a better batch of phones. But it seems to help me get through a day at work.
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Anyone else noticed this? In areas of med to low LTE signal (-109 dBm), there are times when something locks up inside the radio and Signal Strength under Status will never change again no matter where I move the phone. During this funky mode, the battery is dropping rapidly during idle... Maybe 10% per hour. Something is wrong. During this same time android battery history shows yellow medium signal and voice calls work fine. There is also no runaway process cpu ussage or awake time. The only thing wrong and drawing too much juice is radio. If I toggle airplane mode or toggle wifi off/on the problem is solved for a while. I have VRALF2 firmware.
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That's not normal. Where I work I get 3g primarily but also 4g in the front of the building.....in the far back I get 1x. I have had my phone totally drop data for a while (like the radio sleeps or something) but never had the radio stick between 4g and 3g. I also live right on the edge of a 4g/3g line and my dbm right now is 111 on 4g LTE......If this was normal I would have had the situation your having since my signal is basically identical to yours. I would return it or at the very least contact Samsung. I'm sure Samsung will tell you to send it in for repair.
I have very weak signal at my house also. S3 switches from LTE to 3G and 1X and sometimes loosing signal completely downstairs but upstairs usually I get solid LTE with around -99dBm and ~10Mbps transfers. During this network jumping my battery drains very fast also but I never had my radio constantly locked at one frequency or signal strength. And I can directly compare signal reception to my wife's Fascinate and S3 loses this competition badly. Fascinate never completely lost signal at our house and it rarely jumps to 1X.
I did a factory reset yesterday and so far so good... I''ll update as time goes on.
As far as signal strength goes in general,my wife's Droid Charge always pulls in a few more LTE dBm's than my GS3. Based on general public feedback, GS3 is below average on signal and radio issues. It's too bad because the rest of the phone is above average.
It's been 2 days after the factory reset and no problems with battery drain or radio lock up.
The only app that I could maybe try and blame is Elixir 2's create widget feature for signal strength. This always returned bogus values and may have embedded itself at an unholy level. Simply uninstalling elixir 2 didn't fix it.
If anyone still cares... I found my radio lockup and battery drain issues returned only after I reinstalled Better Battery Stats. I again removed it and will see if I stay good.
Hey guys,
I notice that my S3 battery is drained when I'm at work, when my network signal is limited. It only drains when I'm in the part of the building that has poor signal reception, or if I'm at a certain restaurant I frequent where reception is spotty. I assume it is because the phone is fighting to hang on to the little signal it has... but I'd prefer to keep my battery until I actually can use the phone.
Is there a way to help alleviate this without having to turn the network off? Like increase the amount of time between network scans?
I have root.
Thanks
Here you go, try these suggestions
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=33104512
Sent from my white sgs3 running Eclipse 2.1
Since a last update, I'm getting a lot less coverage in both 4G and 5G in same spots.
Is there a way to do a radio downgrade?
Anyone?
I don't get out a whole lot, but I haven't noticed any change in performance when using the phone. But, I also haven't been staring at the signal meeting collecting data. In my history with Sony phones, I have noticed changes in the signal meter reading some times from update to update with no change in performance. I always took it as a change to the gauge calibration.
Are you measuring network performance and link speed or just looking at the bars on the display gauage?
I drove across town yesterday and signal was just fine the whole way. Mostly 5G coverage where I live. I also walked through several hospitals and coverage was fine. I use T-Mobile.