Help urgh radio issues!?

moving thread to VZW Galaxy Nexus Sub Forum
Reason: thread is specific to VZW model G Nex.
thanks for understanding

OP there are many threads in the VZW sub forum speaking about these issues. We all have them from one degree or another including myself.

Also if your phone is that bad you may actually have a bad unit.

You sound like me before I went to back to my Bionic which ironically worked better signal wise after its Dec update and has only been getting better since I returned my phone back to Verizon on Jan 1st.

The straw that broke the horses back was when I took a trip to Tucson AZ, not a huge city but big enough to have a decent 4G signal. Up until this point I was on vacation for the Holidays and always on wifi at the house (which I noticed also lost connection when the screen was off) and never made calls so I never noticed the 3G connections.

I have to drive through mountains to get to Tucson and usually its a bad signal area but for about 45 minutes of my 1hr 10min drive I had no usable signal to navigate or stream. Now mind you I have made this trip with 4 other phones so I had an expectation of having enough signal to stream but no luck.

Sure once I got to middle Tucson I would be fine right? Nope, battery drain was horrible as I watched my phone's non-stop swap between 3G (3bars), 4G (4bars), and no signal what so ever. I gave up and after a wonderful new years returned my phone.

I sort of miss ICS, I miss the screen, but I do not miss the battery life, or the horrible signal and cell radios I had. Seemed the sales person I returned it to had a smug "told you so" air about him even though I didn't even buy the phone from him.

Either way I wasnt about to "try" another phone. You only have so many chances to get me to spend 300 bucks and sign up for another 2 years on Verizon.

I certainly considered going back to iPhone after that experience.

tical said:

ok I'm about to throw this phone out the window it's fine when it has signal but thats rare. it's constantly losing signal whether it's wifi, 4g,3g what ever. Im rooted on aokp m3. Ive tried diff kernels and radio hybrids!!! if i wake up the phone sometimes it has no signal or it just completely loses signal randomly for some reason doesn't matter if I'm on wifi or network. Hand off takes forever for 3g 4g and after waking up the phone at times it will have no signal at all wo being able to call or text for up to 5mins. Urgh wtf! I'm about to kill this phone and switch to iPhone cuz it “just works" and trust I hate iPhones but Android is.really starting to.piss me off. And this is not my first Droid...

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If your set on going the iPhone route I wish you luck. However if you still want to stay with Android I would recommend trying the Razr Maxx. Trust me when I say you won't have any signal issues with the Razr Maxx.

WoW, I read a lot of forum threads and most are generally happy including myself and I live in a weak signal area.
I have read of speaker and mic's cutting out, GPS troubles, and some signal issues but for most an exchange did the trick.
I hope you are in front of my house when you toss it.

Good Luck

worth a shot to see if the unit was defective

That's probably one of risks you take when you play with roms/kernels. Try to unroot it back to stock and/or factory reset. If that doesn't solve issue, I'd exchange SIM or phone.

gapi said:

WoW, I read a lot of forum threads and most are generally happy including myself and I live in a weak signal area.
I have read of speaker and mic's cutting out, GPS troubles, and some signal issues but for most an exchange did the trick.
I hope you are in front of my house when you toss it.

Good Luck

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You should google GNEX signal and battery issues. I think it is that when people don't have problems they dismiss those that do, assuming either it was defective OR the person just isn't phone savvy.

There are also the people that come into a problem thread, offer no feedback other than "Mine works LOL" and gets thanks because people want to defend their device, which is silly.

Reminds me of the Bionic data drop issue, I love when someone would state they have data drops and then you would see all those replys of "Oh well my phone is working fine since day one !!! =D"

That doesn't really help the guy with the issues. I know surfing this very forum I have noticed a few people with the same issues (signal, screen) and folks that are on their 3rd replacement. So count your blessings you got a good one.

Sandroidfan said:

That's probably one of risks you take when you play with roms/kernels. Try to unroot it back to stock and/or factory reset. If that doesn't solve issue, I'd exchange SIM or phone.

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I had a bad signal Rom'd and Stock. I didn't even root my phone and unlock the bootloader until a week later when I was back in AZ. I think there was a bad batch, but I read enough horror stories to know I was better off with another phone.

Try the rom in this thread: [ROM]IMM30B 4.0.4 Stock,rooted,deodexed,zipaligned,busybox,insecure boot + mods zips - xda-developers

I am using this with leankernel and the signal is amazing compared to what it was

if you are having signal issues why not set the phone in 3g only mode (CDMA only). if you want to go to an iphone more power to you but if you love the phone other than the signal issues you are having why not just set it for 3g only? that would be the same as an iphone. i understand the "whats the point of a 4g phone if you have to turn 4g off" but if you love the phone you know it will be more than likely be fixed with an updated radio soon. by jumping to an iphone you will never get 4g back with any update.

I'd say this has to be down to the network. I am granted on 3g/H in the UK on Orange, but my signal with Orange is absolutely rubbish, although no worse than an Iphone on Orange, but when I switch over to T-Mobile's signal or O2, I get pretty much rock solid full bars of H almost everywhere I go.

I always always blame the network provider when I have signal problems as they should provide full bars of reception.

Can't say i've noticed any worse of a signal on Gnex than my previous phones, it has a much better signal and wifi reception than my SGS2 had.

I'd blame 4G and switch it to 3G/H if possible until networks fix reception.

Proph said:

if you are having signal issues why not set the phone in 3g only mode (CDMA only). if you want to go to an iphone more power to you but if you love the phone other than the signal issues you are having why not just set it for 3g only? that would be the same as an iphone. i understand the "whats the point of a 4g phone if you have to turn 4g off" but if you love the phone you know it will be more than likely be fixed with an updated radio soon. by jumping to an iphone you will never get 4g back with any update.

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I don't know about the OP but I experienced data drops in CDMA only as well. I also spent the majority of my time in a 3G only area. Mine certainly may been a dud though.

I don't like the feeling of buying a new phone but once you get it it's a fixer upper