So very often, say 80% of the time, when I grab my phone from off my desk in my SOHO I notice when the screen comes on the phone is in 1x data speed. 100% of the time I can get it back to 4G just by toggling Airplane Mode. If I do not toggle Airplane Mode, sometimes it kicks out of 1x back to 4G and sometimes it does not. If it does, it can take minutes to do so on it's own.
Anyone else with this issue? I have the leather back and got it the day it was released.
Lock-N-Load said:
So very often, say 80% of the time, when I grab my phone from off my desk in my SOHO I notice when the screen comes on the phone is in 1x data speed. 100% of the time I can get it back to 4G just by toggling Airplane Mode. If I do not toggle Airplane Mode, sometimes it kicks out of 1x back to 4G and sometimes it does not. If it does, it can take minutes to do so on it's own.
Anyone else with this issue? I have the leather back and got it the day it was released.
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Are you in a poor signal area? Sometimes when i leave my work (large office building) i lose signal in the elevator and it takes a minute or two to get 4G back. Otherwise I'd try a factory reset. That usually takes care of pesky bugs like this one.
I had a similar problem where I coudn't get 4g during phone calls . I activated this http://www.verizonwireless.com/wcms/consumer/advanced-calling.html and it seemed to fix it. It's free.
Advanced Calling 1.0 was/is on from day 1.
As much as I would love to blame VZW - I started to come to a conclusion & realization that it was more likely the aluminium bumper I was using.
sarmmeth said:
I had a similar problem where I coudn't get 4g during phone calls . I activated this http://www.verizonwireless.com/wcms/consumer/advanced-calling.html and it seemed to fix it. It's free.
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The problem with HD voice is it can drop calls. Since Verizon does not allow the device to switch to 3G when using HD voice. If your call begins on 4G and you move to a 3G area, the call will drop.
raidflex said:
The problem with HD voice is it can drop calls. Since Verizon does not allow the device to switch to 3G when using HD voice. If your call begins on 4G and you move to a 3G area, the call will drop.
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Good info.. but that was/is not my issue.
Did you try changing from Global to CDMA/LTE
in settings --> more --> mobile networks --> system select
I was getting 1 x signal when making a call. adding advance calling 1.0 and switch to lte/cdma fixed it.
i wonder how many 100's of people will have this issue without knowing about it and ultimately blame verizon or lg for it....
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Did you try changing from Global to CDMA/LTE
in settings --> more --> mobile networks --> system select
I was getting 1 x signal when making a call. adding advance calling 1.0 and switch to lte/cdma fixed it.
i wonder how many 100's of people will have this issue without knowing about it and ultimately blame verizon or lg for it....
I had the same problem also, I fixed it by going to > settings ->wireless settings > more, >mobile networks. You have to make sure the System select is set to Home instead of automatic. I haven't had my 4g drop down to 1x ever since then.
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Hi,
Using GNex, stock JB 4.11, Wind Mobile Canada, $40 plan, unlimited data & Canada wide.
Please excuse in advance for the novice questions. I am not yet familiar with Wind Mobile. The customer support is too long and submitting a question to their website required around 5 days to get an answer which is generally irrelevant in my short experience. Hope some expert users here can share some of your knowledge.
Last week, suddenly during a phone conversation, the phone became totally disconnected voice & data. The next morning, the situation didn't improve, so I rebooted the phone (power off / on). Then the phone could connect to voice, but no data (gray icon instead of blue). I stayed with no data for 3 days. During that time, I tried a few reboots, changing various network settings (APN, Network Operators, Data roaming, etc.). None of that worked, then I made another reboot and suddenly everything is back to normal (no roaming and data OK).
Q1. Signal strength variation: what is the cause that makes a signal vary? For the same location, sometimes signal changes from 3 bars to 1 within a few minutes.
Q2. What caused a network to black out temporarily? That's what I got last week during the entire night. The reception icon is a black outline triangle (no voice, no data). I purposely disabled roaming, I admit a network could have some issues, but I have hard time to admit that a disruption could last 12 hours. May be the issue is my phone? It was not rebooted since 7 days.
Q3. How often should I reboot the phone? By reboot, I mean power off/on. I hope this is the correct term. Is it possible that a frequent reboot help the phone to be more responsive? I tend to think so because all the network issues I got were magically fixed by reboot.
Q4. Why would a reboot fix a data connection issue? In my case, a few reboots on day 1 didn't fix. Many network settings changes didn't reconnect data. Then finally another reboot on day 3 fixed data connection.
Thanks in advance for any help.
Welcome to the Nexus and its crap radio. Try turning off 4G, once I did that I never lost signal again. With 4G on I get disconnected from the network randomly throughout the day
SirVilhelm said:
Welcome to the Nexus and its crap radio. Try turning off 4G, once I did that I never lost signal again. With 4G on I get disconnected from the network randomly throughout the day
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How to turn off 4G? Wind Mobile operates on AWS network 1700/2100 MHz (UMTS band 4), and HSPA+ for data. I believe it is not 4G. On the phone Network Settings, there is only an option "Use only 2G Network" which is not a good option for me. If I enabled "Use only 2G Network" the phone shuts off data and changes to roaming mode.
just set ur nexus on airplane mode for a second..
then disable the airplane mode instantly..
u ll gain ur net working widout reboot... )
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ronakmachhi said:
just set ur nexus on airplane mode for a second..
then disable the airplane mode instantly..
u ll gain ur net working widout reboot... )
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Oh wow, that's a cool tips.
I hope someone can answers my other questions, I like to understand the "how things works" side.
2LoT said:
Q1. Signal strength variation: what is the cause that makes a signal vary? For the same location, sometimes signal changes from 3 bars to 1 within a few minutes.
Any number of influences. A microwave, air ionization, temperature, humidity, output from the tower not consistant, and plus just the variations of the phone. Going by bars is a bad way to gauge anyways, it could have only dropped signal for a split second but it doesnt update the bars frequently so it would appear to be low signal longer than it could have actually been. Your phone works by line of sight, picture a tight wire from your phone to the tower, anything that crosses in that line reduces signal.
Q2. What caused a network to black out temporarily? That's what I got last week during the entire night. The reception icon is a black outline triangle (no voice, no data). I purposely disabled roaming, I admit a network could have some issues, but I have hard time to admit that a disruption could last 12 hours. May be the issue is my phone? It was not rebooted since 7 days.
That actually is hard to answer, you would need to contact your provider to see if they have a log of an outage at that time before going into whether it was the phone or not.
Q3. How often should I reboot the phone? By reboot, I mean power off/on. I hope this is the correct term. Is it possible that a frequent reboot help the phone to be more responsive? I tend to think so because all the network issues I got were magically fixed by reboot.
Never unless things act funny. A reboot is usually healthy for operating systems (i know many do not). I personally don't intentionally reboot mine, it usually happens because I'm screwing with clock speeds
Q4. Why would a reboot fix a data connection issue? In my case, a few reboots on day 1 didn't fix. Many network settings changes didn't reconnect data. Then finally another reboot on day 3 fixed data connection.
Like any software there are chance of a 'glitch' where the modem and the driver have issues communicating. Toggling airplane mode off and then back on re-initializes this and in most cases fixes the communication problem. Rebooting will have the same effect. I would only worry if you are needing to do this often.
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Hope this helps a little.
I would also contact your provider. They may have an issue with the tower you are connecting to.
Perfectly understood, appreciated very much your detailed answers. Can you please clarify below?
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Any number of influences. A microwave, air ionization, temperature, humidity, output from the tower not consistant, and plus just the variations of the phone. Going by bars is a bad way to gauge anyways, it could have only dropped signal for a split second but it doesnt update the bars frequently so it would appear to be low signal longer than it could have actually been. Your phone works by line of sight, picture a tight wire from your phone to the tower, anything that crosses in that line reduces signal.
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Makes sense. Indeed, when I said "For the same location, sometimes signal changes from 3 bars to 1 within a few minutes". Actually, I mean a room and I was walking/moving so may be the orientation of the phone explained why the reception was inconstant.
Regarding your answer above output from the tower not consistant. Is it possible that the tower reduces its signal strength when the number of users increases? Similar to users sharing a finite band width?
Yes, even orientation of the phone can have an affect, depends how the antenna is set up inside the phone, i havent seen it so i have no answer for that.
ya, as you move around you could have been what blocked the direct sight of the tower, signal passes through nonmetal objects but each time it does, it loses strength depending what it passes through
@OP I also have the same problem, I am also with Wind and had to do force reboot to make it reboot.
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Flash the UGLC1 radio to your nexus. I'm with Wind as well and that radio gets me good service!
I started noticing a weird thing happening with the phone - the data switches from 4g/LTE to 4G whenever I get a call or an SMS. Very annoying especially when I tether, since it instantly drops my connection speed. It might go back to LTE, it might not, more often not though for some time after I end the call. Is this normal?
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I started noticing a weird thing happening with the phone - the data switches from 4g/LTE to 4G whenever I get a call or an SMS. Very annoying especially when I tether, since it instantly drops my connection speed. It might go back to LTE, it might not, more often not though for some time after I end the call. Is this normal?
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HMMM good question. That would be an answer that most likely only T-MO Network support can answer.
Tmobile hasn't implemented Vo lte
Edit: http://support.t-mobile.com/docs/DOC-5627
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Hello everyone,
Do you experience a drop in network when talking on the phone? I notice I loose LTE when talking on the phone and sometimes even loose data completely. It is so odd that today I realize it only happens during calls.
Any fix? I've done hard reset so that's not an option lol... And no I'm not using a custom room, all things stock with xpose. Running tweak, greenify and unbounce. And it is not unbounce because when disable still happens
You always lose LTE data connections when on any voice calls until T-Mobile releases the VoLTE update for the G3 and also your market. Till then, the phone will drop down to 4G and should still be able to use data connections while on a voice call, albeit slower.
Also, to force the G3 back into LTE after a voice call, just enable Airplane Mode and then disable it and the G3 should connect back to the LTE network, much faster than waiting for the phone to connect to LTE on its own after hanging up.
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Hello everyone,
Do you experience a drop in network when talking on the phone? I notice I loose LTE when talking on the phone and sometimes even loose data completely. It is so odd that today I realize it only happens during calls.
Any fix? I've done hard reset so that's not an option lol... And no I'm not using a custom room, all things stock with xpose. Running tweak, greenify and unbounce. And it is not unbounce because when disable still happens
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I am fully stock and get this. One of the main reasons I will be leaving.
BAD ASS G3
Well thats a downer...Even though data drop as you said, I never experience this on my previous phones lol...always browsing at speed of light while chatting away on my bluetooth lol. Sometimes data does NOT come back, I have to use airplane mode. damn shame
hey all,
I have att on my fire phone , and every now then(atleast once a day) I lose service. It would say searching on the signal bar and it never finds it lol. I would have to restart the phone and then it reverts back to normal. is anyone else having this issue?
I'm guessing it's the fact that LTE has lower signal quality than 3G and
once you force the phone to 3G (once per reboot) it will never disconnect.
LTE is used only for data, when you make calls it will switch to 3G anyways,
so call your phone while it's in LTE and you should notice signal improve ...
To switch do this:
Same as dialing *#*#4636#*#* but this is easier to use:
play.google.com /store/apps/details?id=diewland.testing.phone
Go under Phone Info, then select 3G auto I believe, 4th down from top.
Also, contact Amazon support (right from help on your phone) if the above fixes it.
Tell them you want settings for disabling LTE added to the phone,- I did that and they
said they've submitted to developers, but I guess it's best if more people request this ...
for some reason i have a very weak 4g signal at home even though as soon as i step outside i usually have full bars. Inside i usually have 1 bar and occasionally no service at all.
I have the phone set to LTE/CDMA but it never switches over to cdma, at least not at home anyhow. When I am running around outside occasionally it'll switch to 3g.
I'd like to be able to tweak a setting somewhere to make it a little more prone to switch to cdma - something like if it's on 1 bar for 5 minutes, and the cdma signal is much better, switch to cdma. If there's no lte signal, switch immediately (or within 30 seconds)
At home i don't care about data, my phone is on my home wifi i just want to be able to make/receive calls.
If i switch the phone over to cdma only, i get a great signal. But then I would have to reboot the phone every time i leave or come home since I want 4g outside.
merkk said:
for some reason i have a very weak 4g signal at home even though as soon as i step outside i usually have full bars. Inside i usually have 1 bar and occasionally no service at all.
I have the phone set to LTE/CDMA but it never switches over to cdma, at least not at home anyhow. When I am running around outside occasionally it'll switch to 3g.
I'd like to be able to tweak a setting somewhere to make it a little more prone to switch to cdma - something like if it's on 1 bar for 5 minutes, and the cdma signal is much better, switch to cdma. If there's no lte signal, switch immediately (or within 30 seconds)
At home i don't care about data, my phone is on my home wifi i just want to be able to make/receive calls.
If i switch the phone over to cdma only, i get a great signal. But then I would have to reboot the phone every time i leave or come home since I want 4g outside.
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I don't think 3G or 4G matter when making a call? You can turn data completely off and still make calls...the signal is only weak because youre inside (obviously lol). Since you said you use wifi and you dont care about data inside, why not setup wifi calling? If that isnt an option you want to take you can always call sprint? Last year i had the same issue at my house...i live in a neighborhood with about 2000+ houses and surprisingly signal was :thumbdown::thumbdown::thumbdown: ....my mom called sprint and told them about it and they gave us an Airave 2.5+ to put in our house FOR FREE...we still use it today even though they've fixed the towers in the area
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merkk said:
for some reason i have a very weak 4g signal at home even though as soon as i step outside i usually have full bars. Inside i usually have 1 bar and occasionally no service at all.
I have the phone set to LTE/CDMA but it never switches over to cdma, at least not at home anyhow. When I am running around outside occasionally it'll switch to 3g.
I'd like to be able to tweak a setting somewhere to make it a little more prone to switch to cdma - something like if it's on 1 bar for 5 minutes, and the cdma signal is much better, switch to cdma. If there's no lte signal, switch immediately (or within 30 seconds)
At home i don't care about data, my phone is on my home wifi i just want to be able to make/receive calls.
If i switch the phone over to cdma only, i get a great signal. But then I would have to reboot the phone every time i leave or come home since I want 4g outside.
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Oh yeah! You can also go to the dialer and type ##72786# and click yes...that might help...after it reboots update profile and then prl in that order 2 times
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I don't think 3G or 4G matter when making a call? You can turn data completely off and still make calls...the signal is only weak because youre inside (obviously lol). Since you said you use wifi and you dont care about data inside, why not setup wifi calling? If that isnt an option you want to take you can always call sprint? Last year i had the same issue at my house...i live in a neighborhood with about 2000+ houses and surprisingly signal was :thumbdown::thumbdown::thumbdown: ....my mom called sprint and told them about it and they gave us an Airave 2.5+ to put in our house FOR FREE...we still use it today even though they've fixed the towers in the area
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Oh yeah! You can also go to the dialer and type ##72786# and click yes...that might help...after it reboots update profile and then prl in that order 2 times
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I dont know about data vs voice calls. All i can tell you is when i have the phone set to LTE/CDMA, inside my house the signal indicator is one bar and sometimes no bars/no service. When that happens, anyone making a call to me goes straight to voicemail. If i switch the phone to cdma only, i get full bars or maybe one bar less than full.
I don't think the airave will do me any good in this case because the airave is cdma only. So i'll wind up with the same situation - the phone will stick to LTE and I'll have poor/no signal unless i switch the phone to cdma only - and if i do that I don't need the airave since the cdma signal here is good.