Not sure, all I can tell you is that it happened all the time on my TBolt... I have yet to have it happen on the GNex...
How long have you been using the Nexus for now?
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Not sure, all I can tell you is that it happened all the time on my TBolt... I have yet to have it happen on the GNex...
I downloaded some app that shows you the tower you are connected to. I am not sure of the accuracy. However, the tower outside my house is not the tower it connects to.
1. I thought all towers were for multiple carriers.
2. The 2 towers within 1 mile of my house are not VZW towers
3. The tower it shows I lock into is about 4 miles away.
So, I was going out that way yesterday. I played with the phone as I got closer to the tower. The signal strength improved, had full bars for the first time, and slightly better connection speeds: I hit 26Mbps down and 11Mbps up. Second test waiting at the same light got 11M down/6 up. Very hit or miss still.
My concern is that I have a hideous looking tower outside my home (can't see it from my house) and another 1 mile away. Neither of which are VZW or enabled for VZW.
How long have you been using the Nexus for now?
Got it the day after launch... I'm not saying there aren't some phones with issues, there always will be... I'm just posting that I haven't had any problems with mine. My TBolt did have an issue with droping from LTE to 3G all the time. There were times I had to wait to listen to streaming music in the car because it would drop data completely. I haven't had any issues with that at all on this GNex.
If you want my honest opinion on this, and this is just that MY opinion, I think we have some phones with legit issues and some people with phones that think they have the issue because of the reporting thing. They might not be in a good LTE area, they see the phone drop to 3G and think it is an issue with the signal strength. Two issues, completely different, but being mistaken for the same thing. I hope that isn't too confussing it is hard to explain.
I have not heard anyone complaining yet of droped calls at all, which is what people were complaining about with the iPhone attenae problem.
If you want my honest opinion on this, and this is just that MY opinion, I think we have some phones with legit issues and some people with phones that think they have the issue because of the reporting thing. They might not be in a good LTE area, they see the phone drop to 3G and think it is an issue with the signal strength. Two issues, completely different, but being mistaken for the same thing. I hope that isn't too confussing it is hard to explain.
I would recommend sending an email to vzw and in it put your signal strength (dBm) so they can have concrete info. Twitter bombing alone may not be enough. The have to respond to emails and if enough emails with people submitting concrete numbers are sent then they will have that info to and realize the problem is bigger than "bars".
You're right. I should've disagreed without being snotty.
Sorry about that Feudal1. -BB
Got it the day after launch... I'm not saying there aren't some phones with issues, there always will be... I'm just posting that I haven't had any problems with mine. My TBolt did have an issue with droping from LTE to 3G all the time. There were times I had to wait to listen to streaming music in the car because it would drop data completely. I haven't had any issues with that at all on this GNex.
If you want my honest opinion on this, and this is just that MY opinion, I think we have some phones with legit issues and some people with phones that think they have the issue because of the reporting thing. They might not be in a good LTE area, they see the phone drop to 3G and think it is an issue with the signal strength. Two issues, completely different, but being mistaken for the same thing. I hope that isn't too confussing it is hard to explain.
I have not heard anyone complaining yet of droped calls at all, which is what people were complaining about with the iPhone attenae problem.
My Thunderbolt as a release day purchase, and one that I quickly regretted. That phone never quite worked correctly for me, and the 4G connectivity was pretty terrible compared to these newer phones. The Nexus and Razr are much better in that regard.
Yeah, I put the thing into WiFi mode and it couldn't find my router... three feet from the phone: UNINSTALLED.
Good news is I tried going into and out of airplane mode, and my Rez now does 4G inside the house. Didn't know it could do that. Yayyyyy!
eHRPD:13 actuallyDroid is on CDMA-EVDO rev. A and the GN is the eHRP:13
You can come to my house, walk over to the Verizon Tower 500' away, connect your analyzers to my phone, and use what ever other equipment you need. There is no worry about recreating the problem because it is consistent. It is always poor at best. Your engineers can quickly determine the cause, determine if it is hardware or software, publicly acknowledge you know the issue, and offer a course of action.
1. Hardware issue: Offer free upgrade to a new phone that works
2. Software issue: Offer free upgrade to a new phone or promise a release date for the fix.
Do not leave us waiting with a return window of January 14th with a defective phone.
Well, I can't even get the damned Gnex to get 3g. Sitting here the GNEX has dropped to 1xRTT:6 Signal Strength -93 db. While my old Fascinate shows CDMA Evdo at -83 db.LOL! Yeah, I am sitting back and laughing at these posts. Everyone is crying about 4G. BOO HOO.
I can only get 3G where I am at and the best data transfer was 400 kbps.
^^^^Snails around here move faster.LOL.
b sthere is no problem (outside of the inevitable faulty phones that a subset of customers always receive), other than the bars on the nexus reporting signal strength differently than other lte phones:
anandtech - investigating the galaxy nexus lte signal issue
the bars are low on my phone (only ever 1 or 2), but i also haven't had issues with my data connection. I think the anandtech article explains the "issue" pretty clearly.
you guys should know by now that verizon doesn't know shit about software problems with their phones and any info verizon provides, whether it's from phone reps or on their website, is usually incorrect.
the manufacturers take care of the updates, don't worry about what verizon claims. i'm sure samsung will take care of the bugs.
I have the GN next to my Rezound and I'm getting -90 to -85 dbm while my GN is getting -110 to -120 dbm. Speed test is also better on the Rezound while the GN sometimes can't even connect to the server to perform the test.
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