Help Dropped Calls Can ya hear me Now NO

[Antman27]

So I have had my Ally bout a month and in my apartment I have 232 dropped calls
YES its a basement so I expect les service
I was on the phone wilth Level 2 tec sup this w/e and he made some changes to my phone that did improve it a bit BUT still drop most calls in my apt - I read someplace DO Not Put a Screen protector on an ally it will lessen service is there any truth to this ?
The Vz tec said ever time you drop a call dial ### send that flags the account for dropped calles and he said I may want to wait for 4G phones to upgrade again
Any thoughts on the screen protector ?

 

[death2all110]

Ive never heard this myth nor have i noticed any difference in clarity or signal strength

 

[myfishbear]

Ive never heard this myth nor have i noticed any difference in clarity or signal strength

i use a screen guard and i have no problem with my service. vzw has just lied to you lol. you just need a phone with a better antenna or have a cell phone tower closer to your basement. you can also try putting your phone close to a window if you have one.

 

[Antman27]

What did they lie about ?

 

[death2all110]

Im not sure,lol. when i was having issues they had me flag the account by dialing ### as well and a week later they noticed there was a problem with the service in my area because 65% of my dropped calls were from my local tower. they called me told me what the problem was and they said they would fix it and a couple weeks later they called and made sure i was having very few if any dropped calls now. this was back in july and august and i haven't had much of a problem since.

 

[myfishbear]

What did they lie about ?

oh i thought the rep told you that the screen protector killed your reception lol sry cant read lol..... anyway id wait for 4g lte... i think it will be in full swing after the new year. on top of that gingerbread os is coming out so id wait for that as well.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=487001&highlight=9patch

 

[darkxsun]

oh i thought the rep told you that the screen protector killed your reception lol sry cant read lol..... anyway id wait for 4g lte... i think it will be in full swing after the new year. on top of that gingerbread os is coming out so id wait for that as well.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=487001&highlight=9patch

LTE (so-called "4G", though it's not quite there yet) will be coming this month, but there will be no handsets until mid 2011. If he just got an Ally, I doubt he's going to want to buy a (almost definitely expensive) LTE phone at retail in 6 months, *if* his area is one of the metro areas getting LTE. And is LTE going to change anything with voice anyway? I didn't think they had voice working well over LTE yet.

I doubt there's much you can do in a basement. Sometimes these structural things really affect our service. There's the extender: http://www.verizonwireless.com/b2c/store/accessory?action=gotoFemtocell but unfortunately it's expensive.

 

[GRZLA]

LTE (so-called "4G", though it's not quite there yet) will be coming this month, but there will be no handsets until mid 2011. If he just got an Ally, I doubt he's going to want to buy a (almost definitely expensive) LTE phone at retail in 6 months, *if* his area is one of the metro areas getting LTE. And is LTE going to change anything with voice anyway? I didn't think they had voice working well over LTE yet.

Verizon's press release about LTE said that data will be 4g and calls will be 3g until they can fully upgrade everything.

 

[darkxsun]

Verizon's press release about LTE said that data will be 4g and calls will be 3g until they can fully upgrade everything.

Calls have never been 3G. Verizon's 3G is EV-DO: originally Evolution, Data-only, later changed to Evolution, Data-optimized. Watch your screen when you place a call---3G disappears.

 

[Antman27]

I just made a call to my VM 3G full bars stayed up ?

 

[dots]

Whenever i make a call i sill have 3g but i loose all my signal bars lol. But i can still complete the call no problem. No idea why it shows no signal bars during call.

 

[darkxsun]

I stand corrected---on the Ally (maybe on Android in general) the 3G symbol sticks around. My other phone, it does not.

However, I still maintain that calls are placed over the 2G network, not 3G. EV-DO was never built to support voice (there was EV-DV which did, but it never went anywhere).

 

[thedrizl]

Im not sure,lol. when i was having issues they had me flag the account by dialing ### as well and a week later they noticed there was a problem with the service in my area because 65% of my dropped calls were from my local tower. they called me told me what the problem was and they said they would fix it and a couple weeks later they called and made sure i was having very few if any dropped calls now. this was back in july and august and i haven't had much of a problem since.

thanks for the tip death. i'll give that a try. my ally has been dropping calls all over the place lately, but mostly when at home. i can have a strong signal one moment, and then lose it completely the next.